...JOSEPH FARQUHARSON. In the centre — 444. " Arran,from Skelmorlie." ALEXANDER ERASER, RSA 445. " ' The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, . Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees : / JAMES FAEI> Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, C Jun. Supreme in state, and in three...

...Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite," or the "Knight's Tale." Book 3 (quoted in " The Gamekeeper at Home.") " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays." representative of the Burt family, is the grandson of the H. Sheriff, Mr. Henry Burt, an officer in...

...Many are poisonous, few of any use, and far the greater number are annuals. Southey, Omniana. OAK. THE monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. OAK. JOVE'S own tree, That holds the woods in awful sovereignty Requires...

...the general opinion of his own day in laying down poetically that an oak's duration is 900 years : " Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." * This illustration is said to be as old as the time of Hierocles and first applied to the crow —...

...were all Bounded within the cloister wall. Scott, Marmion, n. 3. OAK. The monareh oak, the patriareh of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Dryden, Palaemon and Areite, 1058. The oak, when living, monareh of the wood ; The English oak, which,...

...atte laste wasted is the tree." Chaucer. The Knighte's tale. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Dryden. P aloman and Arcite. The tree called the Great Oak of Salcey Forest, or more commonly, the...

...waves around thee! a. CLAI;; The Jitirul Muse. Burlhorp Oak. The monirch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays. i». DHYDEN — Palanion and Arcile. Bk. IIL Line 1058. On the old oak's stems in splendour Glorious...

...thee! a. CLAKE— The ¡iural Muse. Surthnrp Oak: The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoot« rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; nnd in three more decays. b. DBÏDEN — Palamon anil Arciie. Bk. III. Line 1058. On the old oak's...

...Bounded within the cloister wall. 3563 Scott: Marmion. Canto ii. St. 3. o. OAK — see Forest, Trees. The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. 3564 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ill. Line 233i The oak, when living, monarch of the wood ; The...

...borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn. — POPE. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. — DRYDEW. *746. — What prince was executed by order of Lord Nelsoh, and who wrote a poem on the...