...her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered ; and the work some praise, And some...

...from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic." seemed like " many a row Of starry lamps and blazen cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielding light As from a sky." The little flames, gleaming starlike, row above row, became " The incorporeal spirits, who to smallest...

...Milton's description in Paradise Lost of Pandemonium: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (1.726-30) Like Pandemonium, built by those original "strip-miners," Satan's...

...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement; from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltus yielded light As from a sky.74 The other Rome, the monument of classical antiquity, his scholarship...

...and theological systems and suggestions Milton imagines a splendid Pandemonium, illuminated with •" a row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus,"— where resides the majestic Prince, or " Chief of many throned powers That led the embattled seraphim...

...are enveloped in a dense, smoky atmosphere. From the roof of Pandaemonium, Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (PL. 1.727-3o) The irony in "light / As from a sky" has to do not only...

...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. (1:23; PL 1:710-30) Keats comments, "What creates the intense pleasure...

...palace of Pandemonium right down to book and line number: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yielded light As from a sky. (PL 1.726-30) 120 (dependent lychni laquearibus aureis incensi et noctem...

...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltus5 yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring entered, and the work some praise...

...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by subtle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With naphtha and asphaltux yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter' d . . . ( 1 .7 1 7- 1 9,...