[56] Addison's Vision: "On a sudden the trumpet sounded; the whole fabric shook, and the doors flew open."
[57] Milton, Par. Lost, i. 717:
The roof was fretted gold.—Wakefield.
[58] The exterior of Chaucer's House of Fame,
Both the castle, and the tower
And eke the hall, and every bower
was of beryl, which Pope transfers to the inside of the building. Chaucer says of the interior that
Every wall
Of it, and floor, and roof, and all
Was plated half a foote thick
Of gold.
This gold was covered, as grass clothes a meadow, with jewelled ornaments
Fine, of the finest stones fair
That men read in the Lapidaire.
[59] Milton, Par. Lost, i. 726: