Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. La Belle Assemblée - Page 1331808Full view - About this book
| Charles Richard Weld - 1801 - 376 pages
...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene'; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Pushing upwards, I at length attained a kind of sloping plateau, destitute of trees, which formed one... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
....' ' .'; - .-. — r Over head up grow _ .. i . • . Insuperable height of loftiest shade, ,. . i Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as tlic ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre s . Of stateliest view Luxuriant : meanwhile murmuring... | |
| William Russell - 1802 - 514 pages
...hairy sides " With thicket over-grown, grotesque and wild! " Access denied; and overhead up grew " Insuperable height of loftiest shade, " Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm." The man who first threw down the garden-wall, and sunk the fosse, whether Kent or Bridgeman, may be... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head iipgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine,...of any thing like ' what he has imagined, that his favorite Antients ' had dropped not a hint of such divine scenery, * and that the conceits in Italian... | |
| 1804 - 574 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops, The veid'rous wall of Paradise up sprung :"— Thus sang the English Poet,... | |
| David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...palm, A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade over shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...[better silvan.'} Woody ; shady ; relating to woods. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A tylvan scene ! and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Miltm. Eternal greens the mossy margin grace, Watch'd by the ijlvan genius of the place. Pafr. SY'LVAW.... | |
| George Tappen - 1806 - 336 pages
...quoting them. — " With thicket overgrown, grotesgue and wild, Access denied ; and overhead upgrcw Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The road in many places is extremely narrow; and on the side next the river, where there is a sharp... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, CedaY, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
| Robert Renny - 1807 - 366 pages
...whose hoary sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd; and over head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with groves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
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