 | John Milton - 1909 - 504 pages
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 | 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...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 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...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 was known In Heav'n... | |
 | 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 known In heav'a hy many a... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...solo. K. The Architect of Hell. The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height ; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover wide Within...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,... | |
 | 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...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 was known In Heav'n... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 406 pages
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 | 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...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 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...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky >• •' This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood,... | |
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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... 
