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 Mills - 1822 - 408 pages
...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shades, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. NOTE (79). — Page 205. L'Aretino, vita di Dante, p. 1 — 17 in opere di Dante, vol. iii. 8vo. Livorno,... | |
| 1823 - 872 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, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied : and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...branching palm, A sylvan scene ! And, as the ranks ascend* 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Vet higher than their tops The verdurous... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over-head up grew 'y Ivan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 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,...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... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 324 pages
...grotesque and wild." '"And over-head up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade ; Cedar, and piue, and fir, and branching palm-— A sylvan scene; and...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view : aud higher than their top*, A circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with golden fruit. Blossoms... | |
| 1826 - 500 pages
...overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. And again the poet in his first book of Paradise Lost, says Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view B. 4, 1. 1 4 1 . and then recollect that the author of this sublime * [Not to insist on less decisive... | |
| 1827 - 294 pages
...grottesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, 138 Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...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... | |
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