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" Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 384
1823
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...capable, according to its ran* and kind, is called the chief end or happiness of such a thing. If'iUiiu A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre. Miltoa. In view stood ranked of seraphim another row. In. If she walk, in even ranks they stand, Like...
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The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's Gertrude

William Leete Stone - 1841 - 400 pages
...wilderness ; whose hairy sides With tliicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deni'd; while overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar,...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." Wyoming is larger, by far, than the Thessalian vale which the poets of old so often sang, though not...
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The sacred cabinet of literature and art. Pr

Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up-grew ery dead creation, from thy touch, Assumes a mimic...thee refin'd, In brighter mazes the reluctant stream Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...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...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...majestic, spreading in all the gay profusion of verdure and foliage. *' Insuperable height of loftiest cedar, And pine, and fir, and branching palm ; a sylvan...above shade, A woody theatre of stateliest view." that the substratum of all the plam rom the Sele to Acropoli is of the like substance : curious petrifactions...
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A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns

Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied : and over-head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade; Cedar, and pine,...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." It is quite impossible to give any idea of the diversity of lovely and interesting views which presented...
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The History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest

Thomas Rossell Potter - 1842 - 380 pages
...champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild — A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." * Quernmore Forest, Lancashire, doubtless owes its name to the same origin. f See Cough's Additions...
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Norway, and Her Laplanders, in 1841: With a Few Hints to the Salmon Fisher

John Milford - 1842 - 346 pages
...clothed with lofty pines, the monotony of which is relieved by the ash, weeping birch, and aspen, — " A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant, meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake Unite their...
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Merry's Museum, Volumes 3-4

1843 - 408 pages
...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The convent commands a most enchanting prospect down the vale : above, the view is bounded by the dark...
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