 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pagine
...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,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1868 - 296 pagine
...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. The Sub-Hall.—... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pagine
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. < 2 or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest... | |
 | 1876 - 612 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,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 802 pagine
...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 formal... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1874 - 350 pagine
...deities, allegories, apotheoses, composed of heaps of figures which seem ready to fall oa 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 for notice iu the various apartments. The Sub-Hall.—... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 418 pagine
...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 Laguerre. Pope, again, was one of the first, by practice and precept, to break through the old formal school... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pagine
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make :he soul dance upon a jig to Heaven. Grongar, in whose silent shade. For the modest Muses made, So oft I have or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 426 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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 briug all paradise before your eye. To rest... | |
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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. 
