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. Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 240by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
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| 1804 - 574 pages
...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...Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops, The veid'rous wall of Paradise up sprung :"— Thus sang the English Poet, and thus sings the French: —... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...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 Shade over shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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...Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether... | |
| George Tappen - Architecture - 1806 - 336 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesgue and wild, Access denied ; and overhead upgrcw Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine and fir and branching...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... | |
| Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 368 pages
...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...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with groves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and. wild, Access deny'd; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend H0 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; anil over head up grevr Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre, Of stateliest view and then recollect, that the author of this sublime vision had never seen a glimpse of any thing like... | |
| 1808 - 560 pages
...Access deny'd ; and over head np-grcvr Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and rir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene '. and as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. " One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with proves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
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