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
| 1872 - 900 стор.
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the Lagucrre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 стор.
...stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And billig As rushing out of doors, to be resolved If Brutus...unkindly knocked, or no ; For Brutus, as you know, was Ci But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 802 стор.
...Chapel, where 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 and Lngucrre. Pope, again, was one of the first, by practice and precept, to break through the old... | |
| William Hogarth - 1874 - 528 стор.
...dignified divine with a slight stroke in the Epistle to Lord Burlington, and note on the lines — " To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite. Who never mentions hell to ears polite."i 1 "A reverend Dean, preaching at Court, threatened the sinner with punishment in a place... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 стор.
...Heaven. On painted Cielings you devoutly stare, 145 Where sprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all...Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite. 150 But hark! the chiming Clocks to dinner call; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble Hall : The rich... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 стор.
...to Heaven. On painted Cielings 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. The whole passage describes with the utmost sensuousness a pleasurably aesthetic, physical and emotional... | |
| Dennis Bartholomeusz - 1969 - 336 стор.
...seem capable of understanding Shakespeare's conception of evil. Pope's lines seem to fit the new mood: To rest, the Cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite.2 Davenant's alteration of the function and purpose of the witches, who now sang and danced... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1990 - 392 стор.
...following lines from the Epistle to Burlington, a description of a religious service at Timon's villa: To rest, the Cushion and soft Dean invite. Who never mentions Hell to ears polite. (149-50)7 I think it is mainly the word "soft" that links the dean to the cushion: it seems to be almost... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 стор.
...mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul; (1. 127 — 128) OAEL-1; PPP 104 OBNC; PBB . 105 Is this a dinner5 this a genial room? No. 'tis a temple, and a hecatomb. A solemn sacrifice, performed... | |
| Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes - 1994 - 437 стор.
...woodwork and a painted ceiling by Antonio Verrio, the mural artist who inspired Alexander Pope's lines: On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the Saints of Verrio and Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your Eye. •B~~iI---... | |
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