 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denyed; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,...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... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 306 pages
...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 370 pages
...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and, overhead, upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. We have often felt the aptitude of this quotation as applied to Valombrosa ; from which place, indeed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...metaphorical to the theatre. Thus Milton; " Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A Sylvan «cene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." ^ I object to any extension of its meaning, because the word is already more equivocal than might be... | |
 | John Brewster - Church year meditations - 1834 - 382 pages
...Jesus Christ our Lord 3." In this religious state of feeling, go to the — " sylvan scene ; where, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view ' :" — enjoy the prospect most grateful to the heart, breathing vernal delight and joy ; partake... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 496 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. On comparing these two passages, it would be difficult to say in what Pope's has the advantage, unless... | |
 | Joseph Forsyth - Art - 1835 - 498 pages
...wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scence : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. The intermediate approaches to the abbey are planted in the open parkish style, and finely contrast... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theaire Tandis qiril parlait de la sorte, chaque passiou obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,...branching palm, A sylvan scene: and, as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
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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. 
