 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...vaulted with fire: Nathlcss he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions, Angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarch'd, imbower; or scattcr'd... | |
 | Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - Wine - 1825 - 280 pages
...: and nothing need be said. Note 40, page 18. Bring me heaps from the shady valley. Vallombrosa. " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks " In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades " High over-arched, embower." I am not sorry to leave the original word untouched by any profaner accompaniment.... | |
 | Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - Wine - 1825 - 262 pages
...miracle: and nothing need be said. Note 40, page 18. Bring me heaps from the shady valley. Vallombrosa. " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks " In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades " High over-arched, embower." I am not sorry to leave the original word untouched by any profaner accompaniment.... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...with fire : Nathless he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd 300 His legions, Angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks, In Vallambrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarch'd, imbower ; or scatter'd... | |
 | 1827 - 476 pages
...theatre Of stateliest view. And again the poet in his first book of Paradise Lost, says — Tliick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa where the Etrurian shades High o'er arch'd embower. CHAPTER XVI. MOZZI PALACE BENVENUTl's PICTURE — POGGI PALACE MICHAEL ANGELO'S... | |
 | and Fellow of a college in Cambridge Master of Arts - Latin language - 1828 - 326 pages
...manner. How picturesque is his method of expressing the multitudes of the fallen spirits in Hades, " who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallambrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...the passages relating to this classical retreat. The first is one of the poet's grandest similes : " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, embower." The second passage is the celebrated description of the Garden of Eden, the... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...with fire : Nathloss he so endured, till on the beach r Of that inflamed sen, he stood, and call'd 300 His legions, Angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks, In Vallambrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarch'd, imbower ; or scatter'd... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 448 pages
...syntax may be rendered perspicuous by means of emphasis, as in this example : lie stood, and called His legions, Angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as Autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched, embower; or scattered... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 410 pages
...throned, Illustrious far and wide ; but by his own First seen."— PL, b. vi., v. 749, &c. * " and call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced Thick...leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th" Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, imbower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds... | |
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His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower... 
