...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height from thy touch, Assumes a mimic life. By thee refin'd, In brighter mazes the reluctant stream up-sprung : Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighboring round....

...word is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theatre. Thus Milton; Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan...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...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable highth 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....

...word is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theatre. Thus Milton; Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm A Sylvan...ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.4 I object to any extension of its meaning because the word is already more equivocal than might...

...With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. (4.131-42) The editors of the Longmans Milton cite CS Lewis's slightly defensive and scolding recovery...

...up grew Insuperable highth 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. (IV. 137-42) In calling his own beautiful spot of ground a "natural Amphitheatre" Fielding at once,...

...at Paradise he finds it on a hill, surrounded with an impenetrable thicket and tall trees (140-2), A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Within the theatre there is a verdurous wall and yet more trees and fruit, but Satan simply jumps over...

...is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theatre. Thus Milton : " Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm A sylvan...ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view."1 I object to any extension of its meaning, because the word is already Would enter unawares...

...exquisite variation of form and colour ; " and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade ; A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view." Veules owes, as has been suggested, its very existence to a streamlet ; to it, also, it would seem...

...is the approach to Milton's Paradise (PL 4. 137-41), . . . and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching...Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view . . . a description which, within English poetry, evokes the 'stately theatre' of a wooded landscape...