| Joseph Andrews - 1827 - 358 pagina’s
...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 , Don Thomas, now thought he had carried me far enough, to extort from me some token of admiration,... | |
| John Smith - 1837 - 594 pagina’s
...champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest...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,... | |
| Richard Duppa - 1829 - 558 pagina’s
...wilderness, whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...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,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pagina’s
...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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pagina’s
...wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...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... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1831 - 454 pagina’s
...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.'f The road to this ' grand solitude,' from Florence, minds up the right bank of the Arno for... | |
| Robert Jennings - 1832 - 432 pagina’s
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown grotesque and wild Access denied, and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...above shade — a woody theatre Of stateliest view. If thus rich and magnificent in natural scenery, in historic associations, and the lives of her illustrious... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pagina’s
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...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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