 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
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1821 - 526 pages
...delicious Paradise Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure' green .As with a rural mound, the champion head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir and branching... | |
 | Charles Mills - Italian literature - 1822 - 820 pages
...following lines, for Vallambrosa crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...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... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 486 pages
...consequently excluded distant and rude prospect, the grand charm in modern gardening ; for " the champaign head " Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides " With thicket over-grown, grotesque and wild, " Jlccess denied; and overhead u\i-grew " Insuperable height of loftiest sliade, " Cedar, and pine,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperahle highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and hranching palm, A silvan... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 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 overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...respectable terror with which the poet guards lue bounds of his paradise, fenced • with the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied j and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, deny'd ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade. Cedar, and pine, and fir, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access...overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ! And, as the ranks ascend* 140 Shade... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm... | |
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