...inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions angel forms — who lay entranced Thick at autumnal leave* [that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa — where the Etrurian shades High overarch'd imbower] or scatter'd sedge 305 Afloat — when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vexed the Red Sea...

...with the neighboring coast, covered with sedge or reeds (Calami], reminds us of Milton's lines : " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arch'd, imbower, or scatter'd sedge." " Punta del Olivio " is evidently the same as Verrazano's Cape " Olimpe."...

...endured, till 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...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, embower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose...

...endured, till 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...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, embower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose...

...been since, and from it he drew one of his illustrations, now familiar as a household word: he says the rebel angels '* lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa." In this secluded paradise, far from the world's vain strife, the once gay and rollicking John Gilbert...

...summit, I felt the fitness of his familiar words, and familiar they deserve-to be with all our youth. " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks, In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over arched, embower. . . . And overhead up grew, Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and...

...Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. Hi., bk. i. 1. 26) He call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa. Ib., bk. i. 1. 300. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen. Ib., bk. i. 1. ] 30. Thrice he assay'd, and...

...endured, till 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...brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched imbower ; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the...

...been since, and from it he drew one of his illustrations, now familiar as a household word : he says the rebel angels "lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa." • In this secluded paradise, far from the world's vain strife, the once gay and rollicking John Gilbert...

...ing forest are now chiefly interesting from the allusions to them in literature. Thick as nutimmal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd embower. Milton. Swelling the outcry dull, that long resounds Portentous through her old woods' trackless bounds,...