 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 - 1852 - 472 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 Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 592 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...overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, **«**. and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody... | |
 | 1924 - 756 pages
...Milton painted an unconscious, but none the less exact, picture of the Corsican bush with its Champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides. With...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead there grew Insuperable height of lofty shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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...wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head 5 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...wild, Access denied; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, 140 A sylvan §cej»e, and,... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - History - 1993 - 276 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 highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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...overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend HO Shade above... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...Satan arrives at the wall of Eden, which "is seen as a mons Veneris, 'a rural mound, the champaign head / Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides /...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied' (4.13437). "10 Though Satan gains access into Eden, access to the mons Veneris will continue to elude... | |
 | Patricia Seed - History - 1995 - 212 pages
...Milton's: "Paradise . . . with her enclosure green / As with a rural mound the champaign [open country] head / of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides /...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied." These lines develop from the ideas of an enclosed garden whose function is to maintain the distinction... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 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 thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deni'd (4.I3I-37) As Satan continues his exploration, he is likened to predators, "a prowling Wolf"... | |
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