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... The Nabob at Home; Or, The Return to England - Page 31by Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Architect of Hell. The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height ; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample...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 - 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... | |
| 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 - 1807 - 358 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 [18] walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor active, and who even here could not keep... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 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...lamps and blazing cressets *, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltns, yielded light As from a sky. * Cresset, ic a blazing lijht set on a beacon, in French, crvissete,... | |
| 1809 - 418 pages
...particular dnir* of Mr. Lafpent. Within her ample spaces o'er the imooth And Uvel pavement: from the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptlia and asphaltus, yielding light Atfrvn a sky. The hasty multitude^ Admiring enter ' d, and the... | |
| 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 lamps and blazing cressets,* fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. . There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
| 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 lamps and blazing cressets," fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. • There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 348 pages
...symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illumination made in it j From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptha and atphaltut, yielded light As from a sky—- There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandemonium, where -from tiie arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed Wiih Naptha and Aspha'.tns, \ielded light] As from a sky. , ' This might be finely represented by several... | |
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