 | 1795 - 540 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,... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1801
...Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest...above shade, a .woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The .verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung: Which to our general sire gave... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 240 pages
...the rugged woodless Turk; beyond which, in transcendent magnitude rises Mangerton. -Over head up grow Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...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... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 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... | |
 | 1804 - 574 pages
...Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops, The veid'rous wall of Paradise up sprung :"— Thus sang the English Poet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805
...[better silvan.'} Woody ; shady ; relating to woods. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A tylvan scene ! and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Miltm. Eternal greens the mossy margin grace, Watch'd by the ijlvan genius of the place. Pafr. SY'LVAW.... | |
 | George Tappen - 1806 - 336 pages
...quoting them. — " With thicket overgrown, grotesgue and wild, Access denied ; and overhead upgrcw Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The road in many places is extremely narrow; and on the side next the river, where there is a sharp... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, CedaY, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
 | Robert Renny - 1807 - 366 pages
...whose hoary sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd; and over head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with groves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
 | 1808 - 560 pages
...Access deny'd ; and over head np-grcvr Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and rir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene '. and as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. " One who has beheld the mountains of Jamaica covered with proves of the most beautiful trees, adorned... | |
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