| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...brazen fo]cls discover wide Within her ample space, o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the urclicd 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 739 Admiring enter'd, and the... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 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 730 Admiring enter'd ; and... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...viator, Ne redeat fracto clausa procella solo. K. The Architect of Hell. The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height ; and straight the doors, Opening...row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asplmltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...straight the doors Opening their brazen folds discover wide Within her ample space, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent...row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the... | |
| 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...; Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky This might be finely represented by several illuminations... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : ——From th' arch'd 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. There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pan-d*monium, where ' 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 >• •' This might be finely represented by several... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height; and strait the doors Opening their brazen folds discover wide,...Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed •With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. An ADDRESS to LIGHT. (MILTON.) HAIL, holy light!... | |
| 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 - 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 cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. MILTON, Book 1st. walking; but my companion, who... | |
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