 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 560 pages
...exact portrait : Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green;, As with a rural mound, the champ>£P tea* Of a steep wilderness ; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Actress denied : and overhead up-grew Insuperahle height of loftiest shade, jUedar, and pine, and fir,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 448 pages
...writers to wild scenery. — Milton uses grotesque nearly in the same sense : '* The champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Acww denied." work, coincides very nearly with the definition of Mr. Gilpin. In proof of this, it is... | |
 | John Smith - 1837 - 594 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosures green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head . Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable heighth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 135 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A silvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend 140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the chainpain head Of a steep wilderness; whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 454 pages
...of Vallombrosa, which ' crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the chamyiain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1832 - 416 pages
...Paradise Now nearer crowns with her enclosure green — As with a rural mound — the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown grotesque and wild Access denied, and overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching... | |
 | 1832 - 574 pages
...delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm,... | |
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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. 
