 The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth; 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...  Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 64by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
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...affairs." To admire any thing was not our mood: " The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately heighth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement." And as these lines suggested themselves, we recollected who the first Whig is said to have been, and... | |
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...naphtha for giving light Milton speaks, when, describing the home of the fallen angels, he says : 11 From the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many...starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltes, yielded light As from a sky." All false religions have some books, from which those who... | |
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