 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
 | 1826 - 500 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 over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...the savage but respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise, fenced with the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
 | 1827 - 476 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 over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 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 sides With thicket overgrown, grottesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, 138... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 558 pages
...has made a very exact portrait : Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 448 pages
...English writers to wild scenery. — Milton uses grotesque nearly in the same sense : '* The champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Acww denied." work, coincides very nearly with the definition of Mr. Gilpin. In proof of this, it is... | |
 | John Smith - Painters - 1837 - 594 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosures green, As with a rural mound, the 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, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green;, As with a rural mound, the champ>£P tea* Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Actress denied : and overhead up-grew Insuperahle height of loftiest shade, jUedar, and pine, and fir,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable heighth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, . A sylvan... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign bead 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... | |
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