 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pages
...had, together sew'd, To gird their waist. Southey also has described one of these far-famed trees : 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, 1 Paradise Lost, book ix. O'er the lawn irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propp'd its lofty... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...through the stillness of departing day, Like thunder far away. Robert Southey. T THE BANIAN-TREE, I WAS a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny...the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head Aud many a long depending shoot, Seeking to strike its root, Straight like a plummet,... | |
 | Benjamin Lewis Rice - 1878 - 478 pages
...Fraserpet, to which the elegant lines of Southey in the Curse of Kehama, so truly apply : — It vras a goodly sight to see That venerable tree. For o'er the lawn irregularly spread, Filly straight columns propt its lolty head ; And many a long depending shoot, Seeking to strike its... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1880 - 458 pages
...pasturing herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Southey following also in the same strain : — 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...the lawn irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending shoot, Seeking to strike its root. Straight, like... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1880 - 490 pages
...'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an agod Banian grew, It was a goodly sight to see That venerable...the lawn irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a long depending shoot, Seeking to strike its root. Straight, like... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1880 - 456 pages
...pasturing herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Southey following also in the same strain : — 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an agod Banian grew, It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn irregularly spread,... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 296 pages
...world, and shared its toils and cares like the rest of us. 7. The poet Southey says of this tree : — 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amidst the wood, And in the midst an aged Banyan grew : It was a goodly sight to see That venerable... | |
 | William Tayler - 1881 - 594 pages
...or two of these celebrated word-painters. " Southey in his ' Curse of Kehama,' thus writes : — ' 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged banyan grew ; 'Twas a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, Far o'er the lawn irregularly spread... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 pages
...convey water. Lat. aqua, "water," and ductum, "to lead." ob-liqud-ly (-lelt-), aslant. THE BANYAN TREE. 'TWAS a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banyan grew. It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread,... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 pages
...convey water. Lat. aqua, " water," and ductum, "to lead." ob-lique'-ly (-lek-), aslant. THE BANYAN TREE. 'TWAS a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and...sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banyan grew. It was, a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread,... | |
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Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banian grew. It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And... 
