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" 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. "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 384
1823
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1909 - 504 pages
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1795 - 532 pages
...also with v/oods. For • here, according to Milton, Over head up grow Insuperable height of lottiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view — ; — Luxuriant : Meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills disperst, or in a lake,...
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Œuvres, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest...above shade, a .woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The .verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung: Which to our general sire gave...
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Sketches of Some of the Southern Counties of Ireland: Collected During a ...

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,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant : meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills dispers'd, or in a lake Unite their...
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Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble

Charles Richard Weld - Auvergne - 1801 - 376 pages
...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 shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Pushing upwards, I at length attained a kind of sloping plateau, destitute of trees, which formed one...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 45

1804 - 574 pages
...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 above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops, The veid'rous wall of Paradise up sprung :"— Thus sang the English Poet,...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1804 - 574 pages
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...[better silvan.'} Woody ; shady ; relating to woods. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A tylvan scene ! and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Miltm. Eternal greens the mossy margin grace, Watch'd by the ijlvan genius of the place. Pafr. SY'LVAW....
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Professional observations on the architecture of the principal ancient and ...

George Tappen - Architecture - 1806 - 336 pages
...quoting them. — " With thicket overgrown, grotesgue and wild, Access denied ; and overhead upgrcw Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The road in many places is extremely narrow; and on the side next the river, where there is a sharp...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, CedaY, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave...
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