 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 924 pagini
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, JIake the soul dauce upon a jig to Hearen. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 540 pagini
...our palaces and noblemen's houses was, perhaps, driven out of fashion, by Pope's well-known lines : " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, "Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and La Guerre ! " Though OEOROB I. CLASS X. Though, indeed, the goddesses frequently there represented,... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 944 pagini
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare. Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 932 pagini
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare. Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Lagucrrr, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise befurc your eye. To rest,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagini
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, or Laguerrc, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pagini
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye, To rest,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pagini
...pride of prayer: Like quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagini
...pride of prayer ; Light quirks of musie, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothing is foreign ; or Laguerra, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pagini
...their way into the public journals, with every exaggeration that could be invented.* Pope had said : " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre." * This Epistle was reprinted in the year 1732, with several other pieces, under the tide... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pagini
...their way into the public journals, with every exaggeration that could be invented.* Pope had said : " On painted ceilings you devoutly -stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre." * This Epistle was reprinted in the year 1732, with several other pieces, under the title... | |
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On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 
