 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
 | English essays - 1834 - 772 pages
...were, studded the openings of the windows || like an illumination on a rejoicing night, or as if " Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltun yielded light."! Indeed the whole might be imagined to resemble Milton's Pandemonium ; the... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1835 - 1048 pages
...funerals ; The pale companion is not for our pomps. Midsummer Night's Dream. 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. Paradise Lost. TttE new light that now began to break upon the character and manners of the Caireens... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...jEgypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately heighlh : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yelded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...pavement; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magie, many a row Df starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...£gypt with Assyria strove lu wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately beighth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yelded light As from a sky. The hasty multitnde Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...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 AsphaltuB, yielded light AB from a sky. • Cresset, i. в. a blazing light set on a beacon; in French,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...the doors, Op'ning their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof, Pendent...asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect : his hand was known In heaven... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 pages
...scorns ; For happiness and true philosophy Are of the social, soft, and smiling kind." " From the areh'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. The hasty multitude, Admiring, enter'd." The opening... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fii'd her stately height: nd shun the brake ; And shows the path her steed may safest Asphaltas, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Stood fix'd her stately height : and straight the doors, Op'ning their brazen folds, discover, wide 725 Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level...cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light 730 As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect... | |
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