 The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays...  Once a Week - Page 236edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Adam Reusse - 1913 - 140 pages
...she nods, considering where to fall." 5. *oak, masc. 3. 75: „The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, „shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees; „Three centuries he grows, and three he stryp" — — 6. jessamine, fem. V 143: „The creeping jessamine thrusts her fragrant flowers." 7.... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1914 - 598 pages
...admirably expressed, but with an effect of a totally different kind, 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. P3. 1058 — 61. In the assembly convened at Athens after the death of Arcite, when Theseus had sent... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1914 - 312 pages
...die, His will ordains; The propagated species still remains. 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; So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet: So rivers,... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1915 - 454 pages
...world nothing stands still — and three hundred years in which to decay. Dryden put it into verse. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state : and in three more decays. " PALAEMON AND ARCITE." That there are many ancient oaks, veterans battered by the storms of centuries,... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1915 - 246 pages
...worshipped the oak, in view of what Dryden says of the same : ' ' 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. ' ' Surely there is in it, with its nearly thousand years of existence, "more abundant life" than in... | |
 | Samuel Andrew Challman - 1917 - 264 pages
...fifty feet apart. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up and spreads by low degrees. Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays. — Dryden. 4. Maples. The largest and most beautiful are the red, the hard or sugar, and the black.... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 772 pages
...annual layers of wood are very thin. The oak is said to live a thousand years. As Dryden expresses it : Three centuries he grows and three he stays Supreme In state ; and In three more decays. The Charter Oak must have stood several centuries when in 1687 the charter of Connecticut was concealed... | |
 | William Dana Miller, Mrs. Margaret Wilhelmine Oberempt Palmer - 1918 - 560 pages
...Write each sentence and punctuate properly. 1. Our flag the hope of the world must be respected. 2. The monarch oak the patriarch of trees Shoots rising up and spreads by slow degrees. 3. Beethoven the great musician was deaf. 4. Priam king of Troy was slain by Pyrrhus son of Achilles.... | |
 | Benjamin Jones Hales - 1919 - 226 pages
...in the natural way. A single species of oak is found on Vancouver Island I. THE OAKS Genus Quercus "The Monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in slate; and in three more decays." DKYDFN*. The oaks are the most celebrated and valuable of a wellknown... | |
 | 1919 - 716 pages
...larch is a mere fungus to the oak, of which Dryden's couplet understates the truth in saying — ' Three centuries he grows ; and three he stays, Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.' The Salcy Forest Oak in Northamptonshire could have told, ii gifted with speech, of thrice five, not... | |
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