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" Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. "
Spenser,: Book II of the Faery Queene, - Page 207
by Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 296 pages
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Horace: Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...; Boeth. Cons. Phil. 2. 5, pretiosa pericula fodit ; Ov. Met. 1. 140 ; FQ 2. 7. 17 ; Milt. PL 1, ' with impious hands | Rifled the bowels of their mother earth | For treasures better hid ' ; Vaughan, The Golden Age, ' Alas ! who was it that first found | Gold hid of purpose underground...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 476 pages
...In vision beatific. By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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Spenser. Book II of the Faery Queene: Ed. by G.W. Kitchin

Edmund Spenser - 1903 - 320 pages
...of ber meant; — the proper limit of her moderation between two extremes. Spenser holds closely to the Aristotelian Moderation. 17, 2. bis great grandmother...the question as to the happiness of uncivilized man, long before the days of Rousseau's ' savage.' 18, I. let be; — so the Germans say ' lass sein,' '...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...In vision beatific. By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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From Behind the Veil: Or Life Studies from the Book of Job

Henry Edward Stone - 1903 - 232 pages
...angel Mammon : — " By him first, men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid." Iron from the earth — brass molten — man exploring deepest depths — combating the outbursts of...
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A Day Book of Milton

John Milton - 1905 - 398 pages
...In vision beatific. By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 pages
...In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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English Poetry (1170-1892).

John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...vision beatific. By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of John Milton: With Introduction ...

John Milton - 1908 - 440 pages
...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 1 73. 2 6. * II. 228. Ransacked the Centre,1 and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, ., And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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English Poems: The Elizabethan age and the Puritan period (1550-1660)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 pages
...vision beatific. By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Op'ned into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire...
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