But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved; Nor uniformed with Phantasy,... The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 187by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound Tfiis solitary Tree ! — a living thing Produced too slowly...Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth 303 Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...that crossed the Sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary...worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrovvdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge -trunks ! — and each particular trunk... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...presence and the influences of this faculty. From the poem on the Yew Trees, vol. I. page 303, 304. " But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the prophane ; — a pillared shade, Upon... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...that crossed the Sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary...Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth o 3 Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, Nor uninformed with Phantasy,... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...yew-tree near the river, worthy to have been joined with " those fraternal sons of Borrowdale — " Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of...serpentine, Upcoiling and inveterately convolved." Richmond has been so accustomed to be praised in fine poetry, that to speak of it in humble prose seems... | |
| 1821 - 658 pages
...yew-tree near the river, worthy to have been joined with " those fraternal sons of Borrowdale — " Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Upcoilingand invetcrately convolved." Richmond has been so accustomed to be praised in fii\e poetry,... | |
| 1822 - 690 pages
...yew-tree near the river, worthy to have been joinedj with " those fraternal sons of Borrowdale— " Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, l/pcoiling and inveterately convolved." Richmond has been so accustomed to be praised in fine poetry,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...its sloping church-yard and its low white steeple, peeping out from amongst magnificent yewtrees : " Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and invet'rately convolved." WORDSWORTH. No village-church was ever more happily placed. It i* the very... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour : Perhaps at earlier Cressy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference, and gloom profound, This solitary tree ! a living thing ii • . Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent . , : To be destroyed.... | |
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