| Jasper Mauduit - 1918 - 954 pages
...is still surrounded by the umbrageous woods which fixed themselves on Milton's memory, with their " Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A sylvan...above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." This volume of Molmenti's was Ongania's parting gift. Has any visitor to Venice omitted to visit the... | |
| Joseph Andrews - 1920 - 276 pages
...up grew Insuperable heighth of loftiest shade Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A silvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre of stately vicia, (1). .(1) ...allá arriba, la altura inaccesible, el cedro y el pino, y el abeto, y... | |
| 1923 - 626 pages
...hii/iilh of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching pul m. 140 A syhan Hcene, and, äs the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Compare Nos 6 and 12 of the prose text. — The conception of the Situation of Paradise is based on... | |
| Ida Langdon - 1924 - 366 pages
...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead 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... | |
| 1924 - 756 pages
...there grew Insuperable height of lofty shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. And if there be also 'flowers worthy of Paradise,' and trees of 'odorous gums and balm,' and 'mantling... | |
| John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and Pine, and Fir, and branching Palm A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody Theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than thir tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general Sire gave... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 722 pages
...wilderness ; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied ; 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... | |
| 1832 - 592 pages
...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... | |
| 1924 - 756 pages
...there grew Insuperable height of lofty shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. And if there be also 'flowers worthy of Paradise,' and trees of 'odorous gums and balm,' and 'mantling... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...word is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theatre. Thus Milton; Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan...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... | |
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