...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." Wyoming is larger, by far, than the Thessalian vale which the poets of old so often sang, though not...

...the monotony of which is relieved by the ash, weeping birch, and aspen, — " A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view Luxuriant, meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake Unite their...

...steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild — A sylvan scene ; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." * Quernmore Forest, Lancashire, doubtless owes its name to the same origin. f See Cough's Additions...

...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." It is quite impossible to give any idea of the diversity of lovely and interesting views which presented...

...Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, up to Heaven sometimes Viewless ; and underneath a bright sea flow'd 3f j Yet higher than their lops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave...

...Insuperable height ofloftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fur, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave...

...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. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung: Which to our general sire gave...

...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." The convent commands a most enchanting prospect down the vale : above, the view is bounded by the dark...

...Insuperable highth 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. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung ; Which to our general sire gave...

...himself on his outspread wings, hung balanced on the air. How beautiful it was! ' A Nylvan scene; anil as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade a woody theatre Of stateliest view.'—MILTON. And the wild, grandly-graceful bird, the only moving thing in the great picture 1...