 | Francis George Heath - Botany - 1878 - 642 pages
...which make up a considerable portion of the world's history. Dryden says of this noble Tree, — ' Three centuries he grows ; and three he stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.' And although this indicated term of nine hundred years, expressed as the limit of Oak life, may be... | |
 | Frederick Perrot Parker - Colton (Staffordshire, England) - 1879 - 356 pages
..."Knight's Tale." Book 3 (quoted in " The Gamekeeper at Home.") " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays." representative of the Burt family, is the grandson of the H. Sheriff, Mr. Henry Burt, an officer in... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1870 - 532 pages
...to Dryden, the oak's longevity is for nine hundred years : — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees....stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." But we may excuse the poetic hyperbole, from the consideration that it contains — though it exaggerates... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...use, and far the greater number are annuals. Southey, Omniana. OAK. THE monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. OAK. JOVE'S own tree, That holds the woods in awful sovereignty Requires... | |
 | Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club - Natural history - 1880 - 382 pages
...the general opinion of his own day in laying down poetically that an oak's duration is 900 years : " Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." * This illustration is said to be as old as the time of Hierocles and first applied to the crow —... | |
 | Natural history - 1881 - 396 pages
...hath so long a l.vf, as we may see, Yet atte laste wasted is the tree." Chaucer. The Knighte's tale. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Dryden. P aloman and Arcite. The tree called the Great Oak of Salcey Forest, or more commonly, the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...all Bounded within the cloister wall. Scott, Marmion, n. 3. OAK. The monareh oak, the patriareh of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Dryden, Palaemon and Areite, 1058. The oak, when living, monareh of the wood ; The English oak, which,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee! a. CLAI;; The Jitirul Muse. Burlhorp Oak. The monirch nscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes,...Conscience. Despotic conscience rules our hopes and i». DHYDEN — Palanion and Arcile. Bk. IIL Line 1058. On the old oak's stems in splendour Glorious... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...thee! a. CLAKE— The ¡iural Muse. Surthnrp Oak: The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoot« rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; nnd in three more decays. b. DBÏDEN — Palamon anil Arciie. Bk. III. Line 1058. On the old oak's... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...3563 Scott: Marmion. Canto ii. St. 3. o. OAK — see Forest, Trees. The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. 3564 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ill. Line 233i The oak, when living, monarch of the wood ; The... | |
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The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays... 
