...battles, the poet proceeds : "But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks :...trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Uncoiling, and inveteratcly convolved, — * This passage — one of the noblest instances of the moral...

...extraordinary dimensions, which, according to Wordsworth, are " Joined in one solemn and capacious frrove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth...serpentine, Upcoiling and inveterately convolved, Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks, That threaten the profane." The ascent of a high pass, called...

...too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Uorrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks...and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks...

...magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joinei in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — • Nor uninformed with phantasy, and...

...obscurely meet and balance themselves in him, and he will see the pine-trees somewhat in this manner : " Worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved 5 Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose...

...pine-trees somewhat in this manner: " Worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrovrdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose...

...Wordsworth's Yew trees (perhaps the most vigorous and solemn bit of forest landscape ever painted) : — " Each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres...serpentine, Up-coiling and inveterately convolved, Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane." It is too long to quote, but the...

...first that picture of the Yew Trees, surely in harmony with the wizard power and glamoury of Maclise, " Those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Hugh Trunks ! Beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked With unrejoicing...

...living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks • That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon...

...lines taken from that noble poem the other day in the " Modern Painters," cited for the landscape : " Huge trunks, and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Upcoiling and iuveterately convolved ! Beneath whose shade With sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged 1'erennially'...