Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Página 551849Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| William Henry Seward - 1853 - 658 páginas
...to commit the fault of that least erected spirit that fell from heaven, whose " Looks and thought* Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Thau aught divine, or holy, else enjoyed." All will admit — all do admit — that the power over... | |
| James Weir - 1854 - 248 páginas
...down-looking, and avaricious Mammon :— " Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven;—for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine, or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific." Anxious to fulfil the wishes of Montlack, and thereby satisfy his... | |
| John Milton - 1854 - 534 páginas
...pickaxe armed, Foreran the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart. MAMMON 3 led them on ; MAMMON, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven; for e'en in Heaven his looks and thoughts 680 Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 páginas
...and pickaxe armed, Forerun the royal camp to trench a field, Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on : Mammon the least erected spirit that fell From heaven...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoyed In vision beatific ; by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Eansacked the... | |
| Richard Harvey Brown, Stanford M. Lyman - 1978 - 308 páginas
...devils were led on by Mammon, "the least erected spirit that fell/ From Heaven, for ev'n in Heav'n his looks and thoughts/ were always downward bent, admiring more/ The riches of Heav'ns pavement, trad'n Gold/ Then aught dwine on holy else enjoy'd/ In vision beatific." After this... | |
| F. F. Bruce - 1990 - 456 páginas
...[LXX, Vg. 1 18]:25), like Bunyan's man with the muck-rake. Cf. also Milton (Paradise Lost 1.679-84): Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven;...pavement, trodden gold. Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. (Milton's reference to heaven's "pavement" may have been suggested... | |
| Mark Harris - 1992 - 432 páginas
...dear?" and he read to her Milton on Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from heaven, for even in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward...pavement, trodden gold, than aught divine or holy else enjoyed in vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, ransacked the... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 páginas
...reminiscent of Milton's Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heav'n, for ev'n in Heav'n his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of HeavVs pavement, trodd'n Gold, Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. (1.679-84)... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...a rampart. Mammon262 led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more 681 The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...Orders, so has he his Mammon, The least erected Spirit that fell From Heav'n ; for even from Heav'n his Looks and Thoughts Were always downward bent,...The Riches of Heaven's Pavement, trodden Gold, Than ought divine. BI v. 679. If theirs was a Goldsmith by Trade, his was a Mason, that built in Heaven... | |
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