 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.  Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 240by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
 | 1795 - 532 pages
...also with v/oods. For • here, according to Milton, Over head up grow Insuperable height of lottiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view — ; — Luxuriant : Meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills disperst, or in a lake,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cc'livr, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd"rous... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm ; A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1801 - 216 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque, andwild, Access deny'd : and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade,' Cedar, and pine, and fir, and...Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The .verd'rous wall of Paradise up sprung: Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pages
...Turk; beyond which, in transcendent magnitude rises Mangerton. -Over head up grow Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant : meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills dispers'd, or in a lake Unite their... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm. A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1801 - 376 pages
...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene'; and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Pushing upwards, I at length attained a kind of sloping plateau, destitute of trees, which formed one... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pages
...THE LAKE. Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan scene, yet Iugfier than their tofit The verdurous' wall of Paradise up sprung. Which to our general sire gave prospect large And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees loaded with fairest fruit," &c. We submit... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head iipgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching...shade a woody theatre Of stateliest view———~ ' .and then recollect that the author of this sublime ' vision had never seen a glimpse of any thing... | |
 | 1804 - 574 pages
...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access deny'd, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops, The veid'rous wall of Paradise up sprung :"— Thus sang the English Poet, and thus sings the French: —... | |
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