 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 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... | |
 | Percy Melville Thornton - 1885 - 534 pagine
...broken and uneven (almost exclusively compositions of Handel), Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. 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,... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1885 - 664 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 Laguerrc. Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 418 pagine
...Saviour. He is best remembered now by his association with Verrio, in Pope's well-known couplet, — ' On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre.' At Hampton Court, in the Presence Chamber, are three large decorative works, in the manner of Paul... | |
 | Ecclesiological Society - 1890 - 482 pagine
...liiiee :— " Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the sou] dance upon a jig to heaven : On painted ceilings you devoutly stare Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre." in the wealthy districts about London, and in the valley of the Thames from Woolwich... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - 1892 - 306 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 and Laguerre Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye.' Greatly did Pope afterwards... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pagine
...pride of prayer; Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. hk8Ɛ :[ڗ &a - Rb = ]xԦ 1 cҢ NY J L0 a чy Y` or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair extension lie. And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 524 pagine
...ungraceful and gaudy frescoes by Verrio and his assistant Laguerre, — names which recall Pope's couplet : On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre. More happily the delicate chisel of Grinling Gibbons was employed to execute the carvings.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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 Laguerre,1 On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 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,... | |
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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. 
