...and how he fell 74(' 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 From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer O'er the crystal battlements;...

...level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazen 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...

...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. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect : his hand...

...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. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect : his hand...

...spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of powers exceeding far his own, Ere yet his feeble heart has lost its fears ? Cheer'd The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And some the architect ; his hand...

...Looking towards the maiden city, I beheld it before me, rising tier above tier, " where many a row of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed with naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light as from a sky." On the right, the cone of Vesuvius, dusky without, was evidently flaming within, for it threw up a...

...fine specimen of the Aurora Borealis. " From the arch'd roof, Pendent by subtle rnagic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd." We need not say who received the company, and with what grace...

...o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magie, 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 entered, and the work some praise, And some the architect : his hand...

...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. And here I must...

...So Milton, Paradise Lost, b: i. : * " 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." " As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows, And ever -living lamps depend in rows." Pope, Temple...