| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm ; A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - Auvergne - 1801 - 376 pages
...exceedingly difficult. The lines of Milton forcibly recurred to me as most appropriate to the scene : — A steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket...overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene'; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Pushing... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides 13 j 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 branching palm. A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.... | |
| George Holmes - Ireland - 1801 - 238 pages
...the rugged woodless Turk; beyond which, in transcendent magnitude rises Mangerton. -Over head up grow 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 Luxuriant... | |
| Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...where delitious Paradise . . . crowns wilh \\er inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,' Cedar, and pine,... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...respectable terror with which ' the Poet guards the bounds of his Paradise, • fenced ———with the champaign head . Of a steep wilderness, whose...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head iipgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm,... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champam head 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... | |
| 1804 - 574 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As -with a rural mound, the champain head 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 branching... | |
| Books - 1804 - 574 pages
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| English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...description, and look green in song." fan. " Now nearer, crowns with inclosure green, * As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied " MILTON. ..... .1 ACCOMPANIED the ministers and other great colaos of the court to a pavilion prepared... | |
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