 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 lamps and blazing...cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 739 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect:... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement. From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many...cressets, 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.... | |
 | 1821 - 690 pages
...Op'ning their brazen folds, discover wide Within her ample spaces, o'er thesmooih And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of itarry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphalt us, shed a light As from a sky." Farad.... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...wide Within her ample space, o'er the smooth 725 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 a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And some the architect... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...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 asplmltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise,... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it ; ..„ From the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starIy lamps and blazing crescents, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky There... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...was a scene in Milton. He would have a large piece of machinery represent the Pan-d*monium, where ' from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many...cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky >• •' This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...symphonies and voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : ——From th' arch'd roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing...cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. There are also several noble similes and allusions in the first book of Paradise Lost.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...have a large piece of machinery represent the Pandemonium, where ,» -• from the arched 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 This might be finely represented by several illuminations... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...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 a sky. An ADDRESS to LIGHT. (MILTON.) HAIL, holy light! offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or... | |
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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 a sky. 
