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
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and. wild, Access deny'd; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend H0 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
| 1808 - 560 pages
...Access deny'd ; and over head np-grcvr Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and rir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene '. and as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. " One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with proves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grottesque and wild, Access denied; and over-head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A syivan scene; and, as the ranks .ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - 1813 - 688 pages
...sides With thicket overgrown grotesque and wild, Access deny'd; and overhead upgrew Insuperable high of loftiest shade. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Par. Lost, IT. Most of these lines are so far applicable as to form a regular description, and the... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...hairy sides 135 "With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Ace i ss deny'dj and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...branching palm, A sylvan scene* and, as the ranks ascend ; 140 Shad^. above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'roua... | |
| Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...the skies! Man loves the forest. Since in Eden's groves His sire, yet innocent, enraptured view'd " Insuperable height of loftiest shade *, " Cedar, and...pine, and fir, and branching palm, " A sylvan scene," man has the forest loved. Those groves no autumn knew: eternal spring With every blessing of the varied... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...by which art combines with nature, to form the majestic, extended park, • where over-head upgrow Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Milton. nor does it arise from a mere diversity of tints, nor the agreeable variety of odorous sweets,... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...by which art combines with nature, to form the majestic, extended park, • where over-head upgrow Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of itateliest view. Milton. nor does it arise from a mere diversity of tints, nor the agreeable variety... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pages
...One would imagine Milton had mused in oriental groves when he describes • . * " Insuperable heights of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene.'• - ' *•»**###•*#* Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit burnished... | |
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