The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps... Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 64by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
| Edward Scott Waring - Iran - 1807 - 356 pages
...safe way of travelling over such bad and rocky ground. I often preferred from the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. MILTON, Book 1st. walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor active, and who even here could... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...strait the doon Opening their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample spaces o'er the smooth 723 And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent...many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed \Vith Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd,... | |
| Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 358 pages
...safe way of travelling over such bad and rocky ground. I often preferred from the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing...cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light [18] walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor active, and who even here could not keep... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. • * Cresset, ie a blazing light set on a beacon, in French, crmsscte, because beacons formerly had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : -From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry...lamps and blazing cressets *, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltns, yielded light As from a sky. * Cresset, ic a blazing lijht set on a beacon, in French, crvissete,... | |
| 1809 - 418 pages
...particular dnir* of Mr. Lafpent. Within her ample spaces o'er the imooth And Uvel pavement: from the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptlia and asphaltus, yielding light Atfrvn a sky. The hasty multitude^ Admiring enter ' d, and the... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle jnagick many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus,... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressels, fed With Naptha and Aspbaltus, yielding light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring...enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect : bis hand was known In heav'n by many a towered structure high, Where scepter'd augris held their... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets,* fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. . There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 312 pages
...dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it: — — — From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets," fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. • There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
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