 Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell: that soil...  Paradise Lost - Page 34by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Guillory - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 220 pages
...Soon had his crew Op'n'd into the Hill a spacious wound And digg'd out ribs of Gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane... Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepar'd, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluic'd from the... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific; by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled...best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wondering tell Of Babel, and the works of Mempbian¿ icings, Learn... | |
 | Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Gilliland - Art - 1995 - 260 pages
...The narrator decribes how, after having been gathered together by Mammon, the demons tore at it and Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures...hill a spacious wound And digged out ribs of gold. (1.687—90) All that emerges from the womb in hell remains hellish.' 2 The volcano is set in contrast... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Quotations - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. "The Deserted Village," I. 51-2 (1770). Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 1,1. 690-3 (1667). But Satan now is wiser... | |
 | Tom Holland - Fiction - 1998 - 596 pages
...confound the man we seek.' 'Amen.' Colonel Sexton bowed his head. 'Amen, indeed.' 'LET NONE ADMIRE THAT RICHES GROW IN HELL; THAT SOIL MAY BEST DESERVE THE PRECIOUS BANE.' John Milton, Paradise Lost Emily Vaughan sat crouched behind the wall, peering through a gap in the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Paradise Lost Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 7561 Paradise Lost Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. 7562 Paradise Lost Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. 7563 ParadIse Lost... | |
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