 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...  Œuvres complètes - Page 56by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Full view - About this book
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...HOME. 201 CHAPTER IX. Th' ascending pile Stood fixt her stately height: and strait the doors Op'ning their brazen folds, discover wide Within, her ample...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. MttTON. WHEN Dr. M'Alpin arrived at the temple famous over India for its... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height: and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd; and the work some praise, And some... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height: and straight the doors, Opening their brazen fulds, us imp of Fame, Who with the sons of softness nobly wroth, To yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
....'Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood lix'd her stately heighth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof, I'endent by subtle magic. , many a row Of starry lamps anil blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and... | |
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...Egypt with Assyria strove ta wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height: her cousins ? At balls must she make all the rout,...home hearts by dozens ? " What has she better, pra levet pavement ; from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of stany lamps and blazing... | |
 | Louisa Lane Clarke - 1843 - 282 pages
...the chimney-piece in winter. Milton and Shakespear both use this word. See Paradi« Zo*f, bi 726 : " from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets. And Shakespear, in 1st Henry IV,, act 3. Glendower apealu,— " at my nativity The front of heaven... | |
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...v. 69. And in the description of Pandemonium : / Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately heighth, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover wide Within, her ample s-paces. v. 722. Nam, me iudice, Regnare dignum est ammtu, etsi in Tartaro : Alto piu•esse Tartaro siquidem... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...^Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth ; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered ; and the work some praise, And some... | |
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...Piece of Machinery represent the Pan-dcemonium, where -from the Arched Roof Pendent by subtle Magicf,, many a row Of starry Lamps, and blazing Cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded Light As from a S%y ' This might be finely represented by several Illuminations disposed in... | |
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..."caff," echoes of Milton's description in Paradise Lost of Pandemonium: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (1.726-30) Like Pandemonium, built by those original "strip-miners," Satan's... | |
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