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" Or gilded clouds in fair expanfion lie, And bring all Paradife before your eye. To reft, the Cufhion and foft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite. "
The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London ... - Page 53
by John Bew - 1793
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...upon books in a language they do not underftand, as to exclude the moft ufeful in one they do. P. N And now the Chapel's filver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 274 pages
...upon books in a language they do not underlland, as to exclude the moil nfeful in one they do. P. N And now the Chapel's filver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted...
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Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...book. 140 And now the Chapel's lilver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted Cielings you devoutly ftare, 145 Where fprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...ESSAYS. 293 And now the Chapel's ftlver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r: Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted Cielings you devoutly ftare, 145 Where fprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 234 pages
...MORALESSAY S. Ep.lV. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look> Thefe fhelves admit not any modern book. 140 And now the Chapel's filver bell you hear) That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel: To which is Added, a ...

John Mainwaring - 1760 - 224 pages
...is true that in the admirable epi£tie addrefled to Lord Burlington, the two following lines, viz. " Light quirks of mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a jig to heaven ;" which are meant to expofe the falfe tafte of fuch Mufic, as is either foreign to the fubjecl:, or...
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Something New: In Two Volumes

Richard Griffith - 1762 - 272 pages
...for 'fear, I fuppofe, that the difcourfe might make too great an impreffion on the congregation. " Light quirks of mufic, broken and '* uneven, " Make the foul dance upon a jig to " Heaven." PoPE. I mall therefore prefent you here with an extempore piece of mufic I •compofed, this morning,...
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

1764 - 198 pages
...confiderable pofts in the kingdom, died at a remote inn in Yorkfhire, reduced to the utmoft diftrefs. 3. And now the chapel's filver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the pride of pray'r : Light quirks of mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a jig to heav'n ][. When...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...book. And now the Chapel's filver tell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : • Light quirks of Mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n. On painted Ceilings you devoutly ftare, Where fprawl the Saints of § Verrio or Laguerre, Or...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...they are wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to lookj Thefe fhelves admit not any modern book. 140 And now the chapel's filver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the pride of pray'r : Like quirks of mufic, broken and uneven, Make the foul dance upon a jig to heav'n. On painted...
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