The ascending pile Stood fix'd 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... English Poems - Página 116por John Milton - 1897Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 páginas
...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...Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 739 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect: his hand was known In Heav'n... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...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...architect. His hand was known In Heav'n by many a tow'r'd structure high, Where scepter'd Angels held their residence, And sat as princes, whom the Supreme... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 páginas
...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...lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asplmltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...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...naphtha 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 must... | |
| 1804 - 498 páginas
...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...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky >• •' This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood,... | |
| 1806 - 408 páginas
...strait the doors Opening their brazen folds discover wide, Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement; from the arched roof, . Pendent...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. An ADDRESS to LIGHT. (MILTON.) HAIL, holy light! offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th* Eternal... | |
| Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 356 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 páginas
...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... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle jnagick many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed...Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect : his hand was known In Heaven... | |
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