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
| John Milton - 1909 - 504 pages
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| History - 1795 - 532 pages
...also with v/oods. For • here, according to Milton, Over head up grow Insuperable height of lottiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view — ; — Luxuriant : Meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills disperst, or in a lake,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cc'livr, and pine, and fir, and 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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and 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... | |
| Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,' Cedar, and pine, and fir, and...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 Holmes - Ireland - 1801 - 238 pages
...Turk; beyond which, in transcendent magnitude rises Mangerton. -Over head up grow Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant : meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills dispers'd, or in a lake Unite their... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 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 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - Auvergne - 1801 - 376 pages
...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene'; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Pushing upwards, I at length attained a kind of sloping plateau, destitute of trees, which formed one... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...THE LAKE. Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan scene, yet Iugfier than their tofit The verdurous' wall of Paradise up sprung. Which to our general sire gave prospect large And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees loaded with fairest fruit," &c. We submit... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head iipgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching...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... | |
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