 There were hills, which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers: .meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing' .flowers ; thickets, which being lined...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 351edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ep*er into Arcadia, its beautiful appearance strikes the eyes of ilusidorus. DESCRIPTION OF ARCADIA. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers: meadows, enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers : thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade... | |
 | 1901 - 274 pages
...the book was written but it may belong to any country. " There were hills which garnished their broad heights with stately trees ; humble valleys whose...silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...Musidorus. DESCRIPTION OF ARCADIA. There were hills which garnished their proud heights with •lately trees : humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers : meadows, enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers : thickets, which being lined. with most pleasant shade... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...It is pleasant to imagine that our poet had the following beautiful passage in hia thoughts : — " There were hills which garnished their proud heights...all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...OF MAN. Wisdom and virtue are the only destinies appointed to man to follow. AN ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 314 pages
...among which he and his fair sister thus passed their early years : — ' There were hills,' he says, ' which garnished their proud heights with stately trees...all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...It is pleasant to imagine that our poet had the following beautiful passage in his thoughts : — " - - silverrivers : meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...PRESENT TIME.) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.' 1. A SCENE IN ARCADIA. (FROM THE " ARCADIA," WRITTEN ABOUT 1580.) THERE were hills which garnished their proud heights...stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate (lowly con\* Literature, aa distinguished from mere writing, which had fallen into the shade since... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pages
...happiness by the way of such experience or no. 3. Fiom Sir Philip Sidney's ' Arcadia ' : — about 1580.1 There were hills which garnished their proud heights...all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...and by welcomed Musidorus's eyes (wearied with the wasted soil of Laconia) with delightful prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys, whose bare estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enamelled with all sorts... | |
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