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...were, studded the open ings of the windows || like an illumination on a rejoicing night, or as if " Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltuni yielded light."1 Indeed the whole might be imagined to resemble Milton's Pandemonium ; the...

...were, studded the openings of the windows || like an illumination on a rejoicing night, or as if " Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltun yielded light."! Indeed the whole might be imagined to resemble Milton's Pandemonium ; the...

...funerals ; The pale companion is not for our pomps. Midsummer Night's Dream. From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing...naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. Paradise Lost. TttE new light that now began to break upon the character and manners of the Caireens...

...jEgypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately heighlh : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yelded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some...

...Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...pavement; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magie, many a row Df starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light...

...£gypt with Assyria strove lu wealth and luxury. The ascending pile Stood fix'd her stately beighth : and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds,...blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yelded light As from a sky. The hasty multitnde Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some...

...Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. ' The artificial illuminations made in it: -From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets,* fed With Naphtha and AsphaltuB, yielded light AB from a sky. • Cresset, i. в. a blazing light set on a beacon; in French,...

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