 Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, 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...  Poems, Essays, and Opinions ... - Page 233by Alfred Bate Richards - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...scene in Milton. He would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandemonium, where ,» -• from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic, many...Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood, with ten... | |
 | 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...Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. • There are also several noble similes and allusions in the first book of Paradise Lost. And here... | |
 | 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...Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. . There are also several noble similes and allusions in the first book of Paradise Lost. And here I... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...machinery represent the Pann, where a from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Oi' starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sk\ — — This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 416 pages
...Scott Waring says that naptha is used by the Persians, as we are told it was in hell, for lamps. % many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed...naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. i Page 116. Thou seest yon cistern in the shade — 'tisJilVd With burning drugs for this last hour... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...Scott Waring says that naptha is used by the Persians, as we are told it was in hell, tor lamps. many & row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With...naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. Page 99. Thau seest yon cistern in the shade—'tis Jiff d With, burning drugs for this last hour distill'd.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandaemonium, where, from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and blazing...Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood, with ten... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...Major SCOTT WARING says that naptha is used by the Persians, as we are told it was in hell, for lamps. Many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed...naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. PAGE n7. Thou seest yon cistern in the shade — 'tis fill'd ff^ith burning drugs, for this fast hour... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...says that naptha is used by Uie Persians, as we are tolu it was in hell for lamps. Many a row Of story lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. Page 107, Thmi seest yon cistern in the simile — 'tis jilVJ "\Vitk bunung dntgsfor this last hour... | |
 | 524 pages
...scorns ; For happiness and true philosophy Are of the social, soft, and smilmg kind." " From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry...yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude, Admiring, enter'd." changes tout cela. Here we had a renewed house, a new opera of a new composer,... | |
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