| Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - 1825 - 262 страници
...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.... | |
| Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - 1825 - 280 страници
...: 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.... | |
| 1827 - 476 страници
...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... | |
| Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 572 страници
...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 original of which... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1836 - 340 страници
...Florence. It is the surrounding wood of Atebelle, to which he refers in the well-known words — " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etruscan shades, High, overarch'd, embower." OCTOBER 20. Florence is a city of most confounding irregularity.... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 страници
...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves, that strew the brooks In...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, imbower; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose waves... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 страници
...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions, angel forms, who lay intranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched, imbower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 страници
...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions, angel forms, who lay, entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds, Orion, armed, Hath vexed the... | |
| sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 страници
...the forest, consisting entirely of fir, it could not be true that the rebel angels 11 lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarch'd, embower. " Four miles beyond Paterno, after passing through a fine forest of pines, the traveller arrives... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1847 - 630 страници
...leaves^ Quam multa in silvis autumai fngore primo Labsa cadunt folia.— — Virg. &n. lib. vi. 309. Thick as autumnal leaves, that strew the brooks In...Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbowcr. Milton, PL bi 304. Compare Apoll. Rhod. lib. iv. p. 214. , * As falcon at his call.] This... | |
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