 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 392 oldal
...Scott Waring says, that naphtha is used by the Persians, 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. •f " At the great festival of fire, called the Sheb Seze, they used... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 366 oldal
...Scott Waring says, that naphtha is used by the Persians, 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. f " At the great festival of fire, called the Sheb Seze, they used to... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 144 oldal
...Op'ning 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...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky." MlLTOM. WHEN Dr. M'Alpin arrived at the temple famous over India for its antiquity and unrivalled splendour,... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 1040 oldal
...Op'ning 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...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. MttTON. WHEN Dr. M'Alpin arrived at the temple famous over India for its antiquity and unrivalled splendour,... | |
 | 1842 - 326 oldal
...Milton lighted up his Pandaemonium :— From the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Or starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. Returning to Shamakin, which Kaempfer erroneously supposes to be the Rhaya of the Bible, our traveller... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 oldal
...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...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd; and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 oldal
...Opening their brazen fulds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement ; The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect ; his hand... | |
 | Louisa Lane Clarke - 1843 - 282 oldal
...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 oldal
...level pavement : from the arched roof, I'endent by subtle magic. , many a row Of starry lamps anil 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 the architect : his hand... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 oldal
...Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And levet pavement ; dden charms to boast. stany lamps and blazing cressets, fed W, :h Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The... | |
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The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, 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... 
