 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandaemonium, where, from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky This might be finely represented by several illuminations... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Hercules's descent into hell. Here. Fur. iii. 673. Hinc ampla vacuis sputla laxantur locis. Thyer. And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendent by...light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect: his hand was known In heav'n by many a tow'red... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately height, and straight the o" / / x / magie, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...Assyria strove In wealth aud luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately highth, and straight the doors Opening their brazen folds discover wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 717. Not Babylon, &c.] It must be confessed there is some weight in Dr. Bentley's objection, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...arched roof, 64U Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and agic, many blazing cre ets, fed With 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 : Ms hand was known In heaven... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it; From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naplha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky There are also several noble similes and allusions... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...pavement : from the arehed roof Pendent by subtle magie, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing eressets, ean I Pulteney, Chesterfield forget, While Roman spirit eharms, and Attie wit : Argyll, t enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the Arehiteet : his hand was known In Heav'n by many a... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Russia - 1825 - 372 pages
...not, to carry on the parallel between this palace and the magical edifice which Milton describes, " many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielding light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered ; and the work some praise, And... | |
 | 1826 - 316 pages
...would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandaemonium, where, from the arched roof N 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 410 pages
...Scfitt Waring says that naphtha is used by the Per. sians, as we are told it was in hell, for lamps. ^ many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielding light As from a sky. Page 116. Thou seest yon cistern in the shade — 'tis Jilt d With burning... | |
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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... 
