 | 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 Seiten
...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, the' cushion... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 540 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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, the cushion and... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 932 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Marrat - 1816 - 632 Seiten
...one of the earl's maid servants, who had offendi ii him. into his picture of Hell, at Rurleigh. Pope says- — On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Vsr-io ;ir L*gucrre, On gilded clonds in fair e\pi'iuO:i tie, And hring all Paradise hefore your eye.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 Seiten
...pride of prayer i Light quirks of musie, hroken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a Pg to heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Lapierre, Or gilded elouds in fair expansion lie, And hring all Paradise hefore yoor eye. To rest,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...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, not Laguerrc, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...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, the cushion and... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...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, the cushion and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 Seiten
...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 of A Miscellany... | |
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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. 
