| 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... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth, and 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 by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and... | |
| 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...Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. • * Cresset, ie a blazing light set on a beacon, in French, crmsscte, because beacons formerly had... | |
| 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... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover wide Within,...the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle jnagick many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus,... | |
| 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 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... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 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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