 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....  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 576by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...and unev'ti, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heav'n. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, 145 Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or...Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 150 But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...uneven, Make the foul dance upon a jig to Heaven, un painted Cielings you devoutly ftarc, Whert fprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie. And b:ing all Paradife before your eye. To rtft, the Cuihion and foft Dean invite, \V ho iievtr mentions... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...the generosity and talents of our living artists perpetuated on the naked walls of St. Paul's. 32. To rest the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.* Tills, it seems, was a fact concerning a certain smooth, and supple, and inoffensive Divine, one, we... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 540 pages
...our palaces and noblemen's houses was, perhaps, driven out of fashion, by Pope's well-known lines : " On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, "Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and La Guerre ! " Though OEOROB I. CLASS X. Though, indeed, the goddesses frequently there represented,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...pride of prayer : Light quirks of music, broken and unev'n, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heav'u. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl...And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest, the cusbion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But hark ! the chiming .clocks... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...to Heav'ti. On painted cielings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the Saints of Verrio or Laquerre, , Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring...Dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But, bark! the chiming clocks to dinner cull; A hundred footsteps scrapes the mai hie hall : The rich... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...jig to Heav'n. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the.saints of Verrio or Lagnerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring...dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But, hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...stare, Where sprawl the saints of "Vcrrio or Lagnerre, Or gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And briog all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion...dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But, hark ! the chiming clocks to diuner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, Or gilded clonds in fair expansion lie, And bring ^11 Paradise before your eye. , To "rest, the cushion...dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But, hark ! the chiming clocks to diuner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of VerriooT Lagnerre, Or gikled ong fancy cushioivand soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. But hark ! the chiming clocks... | |
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