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
| 1869 - 182 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...looks That threaten the profane; — a pillared shade, Yew-trees. I25 Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...this manner : "Worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn snd capacious grove; Huge trunks ! and each particular...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uniformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless... | |
| Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter (fict.name.) - 1870 - 168 pages
...read without admiration : — • ' 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 - 1870 - 358 pages
...POEM ON ' THE YEW TREES.' " 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 uninform'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane; a pillar d shade, Upon whose grassless... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1870 - 390 pages
...POEM on "THE YEW-TREES." " But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks ! and...serpentine Up-coiling and inveterately convolved — Nor uninform'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillar'd shade, Upon whose grassless... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870 - 236 pages
...deftroyed. But worthier ftill of note Are thofe fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one folemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwifted fibres ferpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with phantafy,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 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...Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inyeterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pages
...destroyed. But worthier still of Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacioiu rrent glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose...the dreary change in me ? Alas I the warped and brok red-bro\vn hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof... | |
| Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 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... | |
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