| 1832 - 574 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 páginas
...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which... | |
| Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 306 páginas
...in succession assumes an appearance which is entirely unknown in our English groves, presenting, " as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." The hemlock is not a native of the Nova Scotian forests, and there is but little oak and cedar, which... | |
| William Gilpin - 1834 - 370 páginas
...Access denied ; and, overhead, upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. We have often felt the aptitude of this quotation as applied to Valombrosa ; from which place, indeed,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 páginas
...metaphorical to the theatre. Thus Milton; " Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A Sylvan «cene; and as the ranks ascend 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... | |
| John Brewster - 1834 - 382 páginas
...Jesus Christ our Lord 3." In this religious state of feeling, go to the — " sylvan scene ; where, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view ' :" — enjoy the prospect most grateful to the heart, breathing vernal delight and joy ; partake... | |
| William Kenrick - 1835 - 432 páginas
...Access denied ; 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...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verd'rous wall of Paradise upsprung : Which to our general sire gave... | |
| Joseph Forsyth - 1835 - 498 páginas
...wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scence : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. The intermediate approaches to the abbey are planted in the open parkish style, and finely contrast... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 páginas
...Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theaire Tandis qiril parlait de la sorte, chaque passiou obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé... | |
| John Smith (dealer in pictures, London) - 1837 - 592 páginas
...grotesque and wild, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedur, and pine, and tir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view ; Of goodliest trees, loaded with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once, of golden hue, Appeared,... | |
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