...connects it with locality, and gives it & picturesque colouring : — ' Thick as autumnal leaves which strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower . . . .' In Dante, ever working out the minute circumstances of his pictures, and clinging closely...

...replied: ' How, my daughters'! What, are ye of such little faith? Go to the well.' They went NOTES. 143 to the well, and drew up with the bucket a piece of...original word untouched by any profaner accompaniment. 144 NOTES. " This vale, celebrated for its piety and situation," says Mr. Todd, in his valuable edition...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...connects it with locality* and gives, it a picturesque colouring : — ' Thick as autumnal leaves which strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower ' In Dante , ever working out the minute circumstances of his pictures, and clinging closely to the...

...connects it with locality, and gives it a picturesque colouring : — ' Thick as autumnal leaves which strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower ' In 'Dante, ever working out the minute circumstances of his pictures, and clinging closely to the...

...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 Vallombrosa, 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...

...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 Bed Sea coast,...

...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...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds, Orion, armed, Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose...