 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 Milton - 1847 - 604 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 thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, 135 Access denied ; and over-head, up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade. Cedar, and pine, and... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosnre green, As with a rural mound, the champnin head Of n steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and overhead up grew Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, Insuperable height of loftiest... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 282 pages
...fitly applied to it ; for it " Crowns with its enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny ; while overhead up-grows Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and... | |
 | Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...analogous idea:— respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise, fenced " with the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...delicious Paradise,1 Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure 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 sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above... | |
 | sir John Forbes - Switzerland - 1850 - 388 pages
...Milton, where " the verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung," than in some of its more secluded valleys : — "A steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...delicious Paradise. Now nearer, crowns with her inclosnre green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With...overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade,... | |
 | John Henderson - Aboriginal Australians - 1851 - 342 pages
...and brushy hairyness, reminded me of Milton's fine description of a similar scene:— . The champion head Of a steep -wilderness, whose hairy sides With...overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm ; A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above... | |
 | 534 pages
...,t,.-. •.' r Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure grsbfl, 13 As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides, With...wild, • ' • •: Access denied ; and overhead up grew ' •:•' Insuperable height of loftiest shade, C'edar, and pine, and fir, and branching pnlm,'... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...delicious Pamdise Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign ots a flying game ; A bird of passage ! gone as soon...found, Now in the Moon perhaps, now under ground. hp-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
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