 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagine
...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, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pagine
...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,... | |
 | John Britton - 1827 - 136 pagine
...conspicuously as paintings on the walls of an apartment *. Pope, in his Epistle to Lord Burlington says, " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilden clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye." Paintings... | |
 | J. D. Sinclair - 1829 - 352 pagine
...reminded me of our Pope's witty allusion to some of the daubs which decorate old English mansions. " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre. " I was much gratified by the view of this classical Basilicon, which contained four ranges of columns,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pagine
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. g without lovers, old without a friend ; A fop their passion, but their pr or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagine
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. ; and this which yields or fills or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pagine
...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 582 pagine
...pride of prayer ; Lieht quirks of mueic, broken and uneven, Make the eonl dance apon a jig to heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Lagncrre." But the looseness of design and profusion of ornament which are the blemish of these pictures... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 pagine
...indebted for its decorations to the pencil of Verrio, whose florid style has been happily alluded to by Pope — " 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." We are... | |
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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. 
