 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 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...the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Tandis qu'il parlait de la sorte, chaque passion obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé par la... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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...the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Tandis qu'il parlait de la sorte, chaque passion obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé par la... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...word is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theatre. Thus Milton; Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan...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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...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... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, 140 A sylvan §cej»e, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Compare Nos 6 and 12 of the prose text. — The conception of the situation of Paradise is based... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - History - 1993 - 276 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. (4.131-42) The editors of the Longmans Milton cite CS Lewis's slightly defensive and scolding... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend HO Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous... | |
 | Jill Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 362 pages
...closely echoes Milton's reference to Eden as a "woody Theatre." and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and Pine, and Fir, and branching Palm, A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody Theatre Of stateliest view. (IV. 137-42)... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 308 pages
...Paradise, with the same hint of the theatrical. Milton's Eden is set amidst circling rows of trees: and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody Theatre Of stateliest view. (1v: 140-41) So too is Sir Charles' Eden: The orchard ... is planted in a natural slope; the... | |
 | Richard Gameson, Nigel J. Morgan, D. F. McKenzie, Lotte Hellinga, John Barnard, Rodney M. Thomson, Joseph Burney Trapp, Maureen Bell, David McKitterick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 964 pages
...at Paradise he finds it on a hill, surrounded with an impenetrable thicket and tall trees (140-2), A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Within the theatre there is a verdurous wall and yet more trees and fruit, but Satan simply jumps... | |
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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. 
