 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1900 - 480 Seiten
...own." 326 A SHORT HISTORY OF HAMPTON COURT. His fame, however, was short-lived, and Pope's couplet : " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre," has given the cue to all criticism since. The painting of this staircase, which is 43... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...pride of prayer. Light quirks of music, broken and unev'n, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n: Ou 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 Seiten
...paper'd up in winter, the park & country are just like 1 In the chapel at "Timon's Villa," writes Pope, "On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Lagnerre. " Verrio (1634-1707) was a Neapolitan, Laguerre (1663-1721) a Parisian ; the latter came... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1907 - 354 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 far expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 Seiten
...of prayer; Ii>iht quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a JLR to heaven, (in painted ceilings you devoutly stare. Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or jellied clouds in fair extension lie. And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 438 Seiten
...Light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. On painted Cielings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all 1'aradisc l>efore your eye. To rest, the Cushion... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1912 - 610 Seiten
...mansions. Two of them have been handed down to fame by Pope's description of the chapel at Canons : — On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre. Their rival, Sir James Thornhill, painted the dome of St Paul's and the great hall of Greenwich Hospital.... | |
 | Ernest Law - 1912 - 202 Seiten
...Gods in dwellings brighter than their own." His fame, however, was short-lived, and Pope's couplet : On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre," has given the cue to all criticism since. This staircase displays in a startling degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1916 - 160 Seiten
...Pride of Pray'r : Light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. 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... | |
 | John Alfred Gotch - 1919 - 458 Seiten
...who describes how in a great house, being summoned " to all the pride of prayer " in the chapel — " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre." 385 FIG. 311. — Part of Ceiling over the Staircase, Boughton House. But Verrio was... | |
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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. 
