 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered ; and the... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 458 pages
...hundreds of artificial stars set in the ceiling of this magnificent hall : " From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky." If, however, I were to attempt to describe all... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered ; and the... | |
 | Gerald Lynch - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 228 pages
..."caff," echoes of Milton's description in Paradise Lost of Pandemonium: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (1.726-30) Like Pandemonium, built by those original... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...Within, her ample spaces, o're the smooth And level pavemem: from the arched roof Pendam by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphthu and Asphaltus yeilded light As from a sky. Aen. I.725-27 [Dido's palace] fit strepitus tectis... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...discover wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement; from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltus yielded light As from a sky.74 The other Rome, the monument of classical antiquity,... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...with Pandaemonium. Both are enveloped in a dense, smoky atmosphere. From the roof of Pandaemonium, Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (PL. 1.727-3o) The irony in "light / As from a sky"... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 344 pages
...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 and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. (1:23; PL 1:710-30) Keats comments, "What creates... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 7W) Admiring enter'd, and the... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...bra2en folds discover wide0 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 and bla2ing cressets fed0 With naphtha and asphaltus yielded light0 As from a sky. The hasty multitude... | |
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And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. 
