...whose hairy sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and, overhead, upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...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,...

...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...

...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...

...wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine,...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. On comparing these two passages, it would be difficult to say in what Pope's has the advantage, unless...

...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...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...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...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable highlh of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...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...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Tandis qu'il parlait de la sorte, chaque passion obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé par la...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Tandis qu'il parlait de la sorte, chaque passion obscurcissait son visage trois fois changé par la...

...Access denied ; and overhead upgrew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade — Cedar, and vines, and fig, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Above this, in the opening of the stream, a bold projecting precipice of gray rock, with a diadem of...