 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....  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Сторінка 576автори: John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 стор.
...pride of pray'r: 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 Laguerrej1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 778 стор.
...cause he defends, an Episcopalian church in Ireland must exactly verify the satire of Pope : — " To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite." Catholic priests, however, who believe that at least one " human being," whom they can trust, He who... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1868 - 296 стор.
...deities, allegories, apotheoses, composed of heaps of figures which seem ready to fall on your head. " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre." The following is a brief summary of the principal objects of notice in the various apartments.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 стор.
...Heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre,1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.3 1 Verrio (Antonio) painted many ceilings, &c., at Windsor, Hamptcn Court, &c., and Laguerre... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 стор.
...stare, ц-, Where sprawl the .Saints of Verrio or Laguerre4, On gilded clouds in fair expansion He, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest, the...soft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite6. 150 But hark! the chiming Clocks to dinner call; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble Hall:... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 стор.
...which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Epistle iv. Line 43. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.* Epistle iv. Line 149. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 'T is with our judgments as our watches, none Go just... | |
 | 1873 - 784 стор.
...gracious dew of pulpit eloquence ;" or again, in the Moral Essays, inserts such a couplet as this : ' ' To rest the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite." The white gloves of the chaplain in Pope's improvement on Donne (who has none of them), may remind us of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 стор.
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. < 2 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest the cushion... | |
 | 1876 - 612 стор.
...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...paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and sofujdean invite. Who never mentions hell to ears polite." The weak side of the duke's character he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 стор.
...heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, us Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre,1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all...cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell 2 to ears polite. iso But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the... | |
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