 | Upton Sinclair - Justice - 1915 - 984 pages
...treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. BY THOMAS HOOD (See pages 59, 171) Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 148 pages
...god of the infernal regions, Pluto might well be supposed to command great wealth. As Milton says, 'Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.' Many editors, however, prefer to follow Pope in reading 'Plutus',' the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1922 - 388 pages
...Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance." 17. Cp. Milton (PL 1 690-2) : "Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane." 19. Me list not. A.-S. lystan, ' to desire,' an impersonal verb taking... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...Treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Op'n'd into the Hill a spacious wound And digg'd out ribs of Gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wond'ring tell Of Babel,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the pretious bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wondering tell Of Babel... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. "The Deserted Village," I. 51-2 (1770). Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 1, 1. 690-3 (1667).... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...tears. 7560 Paradise Lost Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 7561 Paradise Lost cooks. 7294 He may live without books. - what is knowledge b Deserve the precious bane. 7562 Paradise Lost Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalatlon.... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...In fact, he deliberately loses it in his anxiety not to lose it. Thomas More, Utopia, ii (1516) 12 Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1, 690-2 (1667) 1 3 O, what a world of vile... | |
 | Jo Storm - Performing Arts - 2005 - 534 pages
...many people die.' Those aspects of the character are more important to me than the military ones." "Let none admire / That riches grow in hell; that soil may best / Deserve the precious bane," wrote John Milton in Paradise Lost. Accumulating "riches" is Maybourne's... | |
 | Deborah Valenze - Business & Economics - 2006 - 251 pages
...treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane! Milton's contemporaries might have seen a connection between this allusion... | |
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Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. 
