 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 - Страница 551849Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1845 - 344 страници
...Milton, in portraying Mammon, represents him before his fall from bliss, with eyes and thoughts " Forever downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." Dark passions, and debasing crimes destroy the fine edge of the soul, and corrode it like a canker.... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1845 - 560 страници
...Milton, in portraying Mammon, represents him before his fall from bliss with eyes and thoughts " For ever downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." Dark passions and debasing crimes destroy the fine edge of the soul, and corrode it like a canker.... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1846 - 336 страници
...expressions of moral turpitude, these were the objects of its unsleeping severity. " Mammon leads us on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." — Nor is it a slight commendation of that code, thai its laws were equal. Ye " shall have one manner... | |
 | 1846 - 492 страници
...plunging deeper into the sordid worship of ' 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.' It may be feared that a defect of this kind, if truly stated and... | |
 | Harvard University - 1846 - 72 страници
...plunging deeper into the sordid worship of " 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." It may be feared that a defect of this kind, if truly stated and... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 704 страници
...business, and encouraged suitors that he might multiply fees. He resembled the fallen angel, whose " looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven,s pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." His avarice, however, was now to receive... | |
 | James Cook Richmond - 1847 - 32 страници
...through baseness. It was this god : " Mammon the least erected spirit that fell " From Heaven ; for ev'n in Heaven his looks and thoughts " Were always downward...pavement, trodden gold, " Than aught divine or holy." When the bad angels were cast out he was lost in the crowd, and heaven rejected him that it might not... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 страници
...pick-axe arm'd, 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...thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more 681 The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy'd In vision... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 страници
...business, and encouraged suitors that he might multiply fees. He resembled the fallen angel, whose - " looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." His avarice, however, was now to receive a heavy and Great Seal unexpected blow. From the hard bargain... | |
 | 1848 - 718 страници
..." Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven ; for even in Heaven hU looks and thought! Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy «lie enjoy'd In beatific vision." " Give us dollars, dollars, and acres of land," is the incessant... | |
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