 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pagina’s
...resembles hell ! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold : Nor want...raise Magnificence ; and what can heaven show more ? Beelzebub, who is reckoned the second in dignity that fell, and is in the first book the second that... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagina’s
...resembles Hell ! As He our darkness, cannot we His light Imitate when we please ? This desart soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold : Nor want...whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven shew mere ? Our torments also may, in length of time, Become our elements, these piercing fires As... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 pagina’s
...Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain; This horror will grow milde, this darkness light. (II, 2 i6ff) Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements, these piercing Fires As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper; which must needs remove The sensible of... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil 270 Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;0 Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence;...length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires0 As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper; which must needs remove0 The sensible... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pagina’s
...resembles Hell? As he our darkness, cannot we his Light Imitate when we please? This Desert soil 270 Wants not her hidden lustre, Gems and Gold; Nor want...art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Heav'n show more? Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements, these piercing Fires... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pagina’s
...Gemms and Gold; Nor want we skill or art, from whence 1o raise Magnificence; and what can Heav'n shew more? Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements, these piercing Fires As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper; which must needs remove The sensible of... | |
 | Michael Wilcockson - 2004 - 178 pagina’s
...in heaven or hell. What concept of time is being used? Is Milton's Satan right in suggesting that, 'Our torments also may in length of time become our elements, these piercing fires as soft as now severe'? Suffering Route E: Philosophy of Religion with Eastern Religions. Read pages... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pagina’s
...the light of Heaven: As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want...raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? (2.269-73) Mammon argues that the devils can make Hell a perfectly acceptable place to live if they... | |
 | Edgar A. Dryden - 2004 - 256 pagina’s
...Of servile Pomp.... As he our darkness, cannot we his Light Imitate when we please? This Desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, Gems and Gold; Nor want...art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Heav'n show more? (2.254—73) Seen from this perspective the great American democratic experiment... | |
 | Elizabeth Baird Hardy - 2014 - 196 pagina’s
...suggestion made by Mammon in Book II of Paradise 56 Lost: "This desert soil/ wants not her hidden luster, gems and gold;/ Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise/ magnificence" (270-3). The fact that Satan is referred to as a Sultan (1.348) also links him to the fierce pagan... | |
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Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more? 
