 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pagine
...of prayer : 140 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pagine
...pride of prayer : Light cjuirks 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 Ijaguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 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,... | |
 | 1881 - 722 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 Lflguerre ; Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1882 - 146 pagine
...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 the tasteless... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - 1882 - 378 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,... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 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. POPE.... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1883 - 498 pagine
...Little Stanmore church is the decoration. As Pope scornfully and not quite accurately observes, — " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye." Verrio had been dead... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1883 - 498 pagine
...Little Stanmore church is the decoration. As Pope scornfully and not quite accurately observes, — " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye." Verrio had been dead... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1884 - 268 pagine
...William, and was made very fine, as far as colouring could go. This place conjures up Pope's lines — " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre." And certainly it is impossible not to stare at the jumble of goddesses, nymphs, satyrs, virtues, cupids,... | |
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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. 
