...overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, *****. and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." This is the heroic of landscape. The objects themselves are simple, few and great, but not so great...

...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denyed; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general sire gave...

...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which...

...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which...

...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and, overhead, upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. We have often felt the aptitude of this quotation as applied to Valombrosa ; from which place, indeed,...

...metaphorical to the theatre. Thus Milton; " Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A Sylvan «cene; and as the ranks ascend Shade 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...

...Jesus Christ our Lord 3." In this religious state of feeling, go to the — " sylvan scene ; where, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view ' :" — enjoy the prospect most grateful to the heart, breathing vernal delight and joy ; partake...

...Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise upsprung : Which to our general sire gave...

...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. On comparing these two passages, it would be difficult to say in what Pope's has the advantage, unless...

...wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scence : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. The intermediate approaches to the abbey are planted in the open parkish style, and finely contrast...