 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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: his hand... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...smooth 725 And level pavement. 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. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect. His hand... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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 : his hand... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...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...versed in this art know very well how to raise. The VOL. IV. D evil spirits at the same time might very properly appear in vehicles of flame, and employ... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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. And here I must... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 of th* Eternal... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - Iran - 1807 - 356 pages
...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 As from a sky. MILTON, Book 1st. walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor active, and who even here could... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 370 pages
...-from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a rorr Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fe«t With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from...a great frame of wood, with ten thousand beautiful exhaltations of fire, which men versed in this art know very well how to raise. The evil spirits at... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 358 pages
...represent the Pau-dsemomuin, where .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 " This might be fmely represented by several illuminations disposed in a great frame of wood, with tea thousand beautiful... | |
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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. 
