...164. Q Shade above shade, a woody theatre 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 empire neighboring round. 145 And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest...

...the better to understand the description in verse. 140. A sylvan scene,] So Virgil, ;En. i. 164. Q Shade above shade, a woody theatre 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...

...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...higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round....

...grotesque and wild." '"And over-head up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade ; Cedar, and piue, and fir, and branching palm-— A sylvan scene; and...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view : aud higher than their top*, A circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with golden fruit. Blossoms...

...140 Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verduous wall of Paradise up sprung : Which to our general...prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round. 145 And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms...

...overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. And again the poet in his first book of Paradise Lost, says Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the...

...grottesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, 138 Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan...neighbouring round. And higher than that wall a circling row 146 Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, 147 Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, Appeared,...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view B. 4, 1. 1 4 1 . and then recollect that the author of this sublime * [Not to insist on less decisive...

...overgrown, grotesque and wild Access denied ; and over head up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, A sylvan scene : and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. And again the poet in his first book of Paradise Lost, says — Tliick as autumnal leaves that strew...

...grew Insuperable heighth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm — A silvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. My friend , Don Thomas, now thought he had carried me far enough, to extort from me some token of admiration,...