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 | 1827 - 476 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 — Tliick as autumnal leaves that strew the... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...the skies ! Man loves the forest. Since in Eden's groves His sire, yet innocent, enraptured viewed ' Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene,' man has the forest loved. Those groves no autumn knew : eternal spring With all the... | |
 | Joseph Andrews - 1827 - 358 pages
...grandeur, is Milton's description of Eden true to the letter : — over head up grew Insuperable heighth 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. My friend... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 558 pages
...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. B. iv. v- 132. MECHANICAL ARTS. In Florence, the most remarkable manufacture is a peculiar mosaic,... | |
 | John Smith - 1837 - 594 pages
...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view ; Of goodliest trees, loaded with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once, of golden hue, Appeared,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...The alteration of scenes feeds and relieves the eye, before it be full of the same object. I', mm. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A sylvan...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Milton. To make a more perfect model of a picture, is, in the language of poets, to draw up the scenary... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...autumn Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright. THE SYLVAN SCENE. MILTON. , OVER head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and astiie ranks ascend Shade ahove shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. THE OAK. The gnarled oak,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...Shahtpeare. liirhurd II. act v. sc. 2. Over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, t Vil.ir and pine and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks oxead, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Mattm'i Paradue Loa, book iv. line 131.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable heighth 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... | |
 | Henry Edmund Carrington - 1843 - 364 pages
...from Paradise lost. " Overhead opgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade Cedar, and fir, and pine, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." We shall now conduct the stranger to a few of the more striking objects in the grounds, and by the... | |
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