...service of Mammon, the least erected spirit that frll From heaven ; — [whose] looks and thoughts There always downward bent, admiring more The riches of...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific, ami thy doom shall be with him and his followers. There seems, at first...

...He resembled the fallen angel, whose ' looks and thoughts Great Seal taken from Cardinal Beaufort. Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." His avarice, however, was now to receive a heavy and unexpected blow. From the hard bargain he made...

...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....

...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....

...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...— 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 sufficiently...

...unsleeping severity. " Mammon leads us on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always...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...

...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...— 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 sufficiently...

...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...

...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...

...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 bent, admiring more 681 The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy'd In vision...