 | William Shenstone - 1804 - 222 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach ; nor drops it, on his first departure. Add H 2 to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the...wide protection of its branches. A large, branching, aged oak, is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. Urns are more solemn, if large and... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach ; nor drops it on his first departure. Add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches, and it presents to you the finest image of the manly character. IT is a miserable thing to be sensible... | |
 | 1814 - 378 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach; nor drops it on his first departure. Add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches, and it presents to you the inest image of the manly character. THERE is nothing more universally commended... | |
 | 1821 - 424 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach, nor drops it on his first departure : add to this, its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches. A targe, branching, aged oak, is, perhaps, the most venerable of all inapimate objects. Urns are more... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...for Providence, dwelt upon » In his " Unconnected Thoughts" lie admires the Oak, for " its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the...wide protection of its branches : a large, branching, aged oak, is, perhaps, the most venerable of all inanimate objects." 151 his mind. From this source... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach, nor drops it on his first departure: add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches. A large, spreading, aged oak is, perhaps, the most venerable of all inanimate objects." Independently of its... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 278 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach, nor drops it on his first departure. Add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark and the wide protection of its branches." " Indolence is a kind of centripetal force." " I hate maritime expressions, similes, and allusions... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1868 - 364 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach ; nor drops it, on his first departure. Add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches. x A LARGE, branching, aged oak, is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. URNS are more... | |
 | Abram Smythe Palmer - 1876 - 340 pages
...verdure on the sun's first approach, nor drops it on his first departure. Add to this its majestic appearance, the rough grandeur of its bark, and the wide protection of its branches.' He further expresses the opinion, in which most people will coincide with him, that ' a large, branching,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1765 - 514 pages
...manly character : In former times I Ihould have faid, and in prefent times I think I am authorized to fay, the Britifh one. As a brave man is not fuddenly...wide protection of its branches. A large, branching, aged oak, is perhaps the moft venerable «fall inanimate objects, Urns are more folemn, if large and... | |
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I am authorized to say, the British one. As a brave man is not suddenly either elated by prosperity or depressed by adversity, so the oak displays not its verdure on the sun's first approach ; nor drops it, on his first departure. Add H 2 to this its... 
