 Mammon 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 The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision...  United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Stran 241843Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1848 - 780 strani
...god. Mammon — the least erected spirit that fell From heaven — for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent; admiring more...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine, or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. We might fancy that this was merely a violent return of an intermittent... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 strani
...spirit that fell From heaven ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts 680 Were always downward hent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy 'd In vision heatific : hy him first Men also, and hy his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 strani
...them on ; Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent ; admiring more...trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Bansack'd the centre, and with... | |
 | John Harris - 1836 - 348 strani
...describes him as " the least erected spirit that fell From heaven: for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent; admiring more...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else, enjoyed In vision beatific." The moral of which is, that covetousness is one of the eldest-born of... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 strani
...them on ; Mammon , the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent ; admiring more...trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 strani
...them on ; Mammon , the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent; admiring more...trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 strani
...Esprits tombés du ciel, car dans le ciel même ses regards et ses pensées étaient toujours diriThe riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack 'd the centre, and with... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 strani
...reader of " Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heav'n ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more...trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific." PARADISE LOST, bi 678 — 683. It will thus appear, that to constitute temporal blessings... | |
 | Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1838 - 174 strani
...even before his apostacy, a spirit with a " downward" look: " for e'en in Heaven his looks and thought Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches...trodden gold, Than aught divine, or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific." Such an one surely merited his expulsion; and he still retains his sordid spirit,... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - 370 strani
...these lines — " the least erected spirit that fell " From Heaven : for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts " Were always downward bent ; admiring more...pavement, trodden gold, " Than aught divine or holy else, engaged " In vision beatific." You have spoken of the uses of money — the necessity of its obtainment,... | |
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