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. The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Side 127av Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| William Leete Stone - 1841 - 400 sider
...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." Wyoming is larger, by far, than the Thessalian vale which the poets of old so often sang, though not... | |
| John Milford - 1842 - 346 sider
...the monotony of which is relieved by the ash, weeping birch, and aspen, — " A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant, meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake Unite their... | |
| Thomas Rossell Potter - 1842 - 380 sider
...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild — A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." * Quernmore Forest, Lancashire, doubtless owes its name to the same origin. f See Cough's Additions... | |
| Trip - 1842 - 466 sider
...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." It is quite impossible to give any idea of the diversity of lovely and interesting views which presented... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, up to Heaven sometimes Viewless ; and underneath a bright sea flow'd 3f j Yet higher than their lops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 sider
...Insuperable height ofloftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fur, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sider
...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. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung: Which to our general sire gave... | |
| 1843 - 408 sider
...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." The convent commands a most enchanting prospect down the vale : above, the view is bounded by the dark... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 sider
...Insuperable highth 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. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung ; Which to our general sire gave... | |
| Chepstow - 1843 - 78 sider
...himself on his outspread wings, hung balanced on the air. How beautiful it was! ' A Nylvan scene; anil as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade a woody theatre Of stateliest view.'—MILTON. And the wild, grandly-graceful bird, the only moving thing in the great picture 1... | |
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