 | 1876 - 598 pages
...roses and violets on the heavenly floor against the rising of the sun, they went on their journey. There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble villages whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1877 - 656 pages
...few be, whom they should obey.' The following word-picture is Sidney's description of Arcadia : — 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 enamel'd with all sorts... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...and by welcomed Musidorus' 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 base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows, enamelled with all sorts... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...byand-by welcomed Musidorus' 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 base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...pavilion, they went on their journey, which by and by welcomed Musidorus' eyes with delightful prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...TIME.) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.1 1. A SCEKE IN ARCADIA. (FROM THE " ARCADIA," WRITTEN ABOUT 1580.) TIIKRE were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate (lowly con%* Literature, as distinguished from mere writing, which had fallen into the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...'There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; ,each pasture stored with sheep, feeding... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...varieties recount their wronge-cansed sorrow) made them put off their sleep.' Or the scenery of Arcadia: 'There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadow,, enamelled with all sorts... | |
 | 1882 - 330 pages
...and joy." 3. " Upward Slide " of incomplete or suspended sense. DESCRIPTION OF ARCADIA. — Sidney. 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... | |
 | 1882 - 328 pages
...and joy." 3. " Upward Slide " of incomplete or suspended sense. DESCRIPTION OP ARCADIA. — Sidney. 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... | |
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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 with... 
