 Insuperable height of loftiest shade, — Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, — A sylvan scene; and, as the ranks< ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.  Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire: On the ... - Page 141by Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1838Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cc'livr, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd"rous... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...branching palm ; A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...hairy sides 13 j With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head 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. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
 | 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 - Europe - 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... | |
 | David Irving - English poetry - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 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 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... | |
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