But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved; Nor uninformed with... Modern Painters ... - Page 292by John Ruskin - 1856Full view - About this book
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 350 pages
...battles, the poet proceeds : "But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks :...trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Uncoiling, and inveteratcly convolved, — * This passage — one of the noblest instances of the moral... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks...and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — • Nor uninformed with phantasy, and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and eaeh particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joinei in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — • Nor uninformed with phantasy, and... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...pine-trees somewhat in this manner : " Worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved 5 Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks...threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 pages
...lines taken from that noble poem the other day in the " Modern Painters," cited for the landscape : " Huge trunks, and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Upcoiling and iuveterately convolved ! Beneath whose shade With sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged 1'erennially'... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...magnificent To be destroy'd. But worthier still of noto Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninlorm'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillar'd shade, Upon whose grassless... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...magnificent To be destroy'd. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uniniorm'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillar'd shade. Upon whose grassless... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1858 - 376 pages
...magnificent yew trees commemorated by Wordsworth in these lines : — " Fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !...Of intertwisted fibres, serpentine, Upcoiling and iaveterately convolved, Nor uninform'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillar'd... | |
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