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
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...wagons light: So on this windy sea of land, the fiend . , Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey. -Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of paradise up sprung : Which to our general siri gave prospect large Into this nether empire neighbouring round. And higher than that wall, a circling... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...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...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 wished... | |
| Ippolito Pindemonte - 1817 - 300 pages
...With thicktet overgrown, grottesque and wild, Access deny'd: and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade , Cedar, and Pine, and Fir, and...scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a voody theatre Of stateliest view: yet higher than their tops The verd' rous wall of Paradise up sprung... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...on this windy sea of land, the fiend Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey. . • Milton, S. 3, -Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of...Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into this nether empire neighbouring round. And higher than that wall, a circling row Of goodliest trees... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - Devon (England) - 1817 - 346 pages
...descriptive of the spot : " Over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and fir, and pine, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." This place also gave birth to the following Address .to Milton : Due to thy verse beyond all praise,... | |
| Ippolito Pindemonte - 1817 - 294 pages
...Shade above shade, a voody theatre 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 empire neighb'ring round. And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Utopias - 1817 - 440 pages
...Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, 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." To fill up the smaller parts of this fine picture, I would rather refer to Horace Walpole, or Mason,... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Utopias - 1817 - 452 pages
...Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, 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." To fill up the smaller parts of this fine picture, I would rather refer to Horace Walpole, or Mason,... | |
| Filippo Scolari, Giovanni Battista Andreini - 1818 - 372 pages
...thicket overgrown, ^-rottes^ne and wild, Access deny'd; and over head up grew Insuperable height. i 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, TVhich to our general sire gave prospect large lalo liis nether... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 642 pages
...With thicket owergrown grotesque and wild , Access deny'd ; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade , Cedar and pine , and fir and branching...above shade , a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Par. Lost. iv. Most of these lines are so far applicable as to form a regular description, and the... | |
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