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. A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil, and ... - Page 247by Thomas Coke - 1810Full view - About this book
| Charles Richard Weld - Auvergne - 1801 - 376 pages
...exceedingly difficult. The lines of Milton forcibly recurred to me as most appropriate to the scene : — A steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene'; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above... | |
| Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...description. ... Eden, where delitious Paradise . . . crowns wilh \\er inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,' Cedar, and pine,... | |
| William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...consequently excludes distant and rude prospect, the grand charm in modern gardening; for " the champaign head " Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides "...grotesque and wild! " Access denied; and overhead up grew " Insuperable height of loftiest shade, " Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm." The... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...terror with which ' the Poet guards the bounds of his Paradise, • fenced ———with the champaign head . Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head iipgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
| 1804 - 574 pages
...Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As -with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...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... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champam head Of a steep wilderness, 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... | |
| English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...green in song." fan. " Now nearer, crowns with inclosure green, * As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy sides With...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied " MILTON. ..... .1 ACCOMPANIED the ministers and other great colaos of the court to a pavilion prepared... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rutal mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, CedaY, and pine, and fir, and... | |
| Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...Paradise, \ i Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain dread Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access deuj'd." WHILST I wait for the amusement which I am assured of receiving from your letters, my Elizabeth,... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his paradise, fcuced with the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; anil over head up grevr Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
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