 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...pavement of heaven : — Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heav'n, for e'en in heav'n his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy, else enjoy'd In the vision beatific ! When... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...r'rom Heaven ; for e'en in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more Thr s his burni 0+ vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell [thoughts From Heaven; for e'en in Heaven his looks and Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches...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 - 1823 - 306 pages
...Spirit that fell [thoughts From Heaven ; for e'en in Heaven his looks and 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, and with... | |
 | Richard Twopeny - Bible - 1824 - 376 pages
...more than the Divine artificer : not so, as to make us like him, of whom the poet tells us : " E'en in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific." But if with thoughts elevated to the contemplation... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...and a spotless pavement. It would resemble that of the spirit in Milton, of whom we read, that " E'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...,.... Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd •. In vision beatific." . ... ' . . .1 " In the hour of affliction, distress, or terror," says the young... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...cast a rampart. Mammon led them on : Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven ; for e'en vision beatific : by liim first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Kansack'd the centre, and with... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...cast a rampart. Mammon led them on ; Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven ; for e'en in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...pavement trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoyed In vision beatifick : by him first 684 Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...possible for us, so " rich " and so unfeeling, to enter therein, we should probably, like Mammon, admire more — The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. The conclusion would be irresistibly forced upon us, that we had kept pace... | |
 | Rev. J. Sellon - Bible - 1828 - 122 pages
...apostate angel, who though a minister of heavenly things, yet turned his mind to darkness : "Whose looks and thoughts, were always downward bent, Admiring...Trodden gold, than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific." If such has been the case with the Church of England and that of Rome, God grant,... | |
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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... 
