 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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...Naphtha and 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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...straight the doors, Op'ning their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement. From the arched roof, Pendant...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect. His hand... | |
 | British periodicals - 1821 - 690 pages
...strait the doors Op'ning their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample spaces, o'er thesmooih And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of itarry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphalt us, shed a light As from a sky." Farad.... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...level pavement: from the arched roof. Pendent hy subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and hlazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring eutcr'd; and the work some praiee, And some the architect ; his hand was... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...wide Within her ample space, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect : his hand... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...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, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asplmltus,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it ; ..„ From the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starIy lamps and blazing crescents, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky There... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...was a scene in Milton. He would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pan-d*monium, where ' from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky >• •' This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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...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... | |
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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 and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from... 
