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 James C. Davidson - India - 1843 - 448 pages
...marsh. We pursued our homeward course, passing through the skirts of the cool and extensive forest, " 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign blic sports and festival pastimes, that they might...of drunkenness and lust, but such as may inure an Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and ля the ranks ascend, Shade above... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 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 overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
| Christian Gleaner - Gift books - 1844 - 342 pages
...visited by Satan : — Now nearer, crowns with her indosure 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 shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
| William Leete Stone - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1844 - 434 pages
...shut the valley from the rest of the world, correspond well with the great poet's -enclosure green, Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; while overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head3 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...overgrown, grotesque, and wild, Access denied ; and over-head4 up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 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...over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Or a steep wilderness ; 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,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign in Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shtde above shade,... | |
| John George Francis - Italy - 1847 - 388 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure 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 shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
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