...to it, as it is superior to every other tree for durability. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays, Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." It is said that the hills of southern Judea are covered to the summit with prickly oaks, and that the...

...oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries be grows, and three he stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.'' The following account, by another poet of by-gone days, with peculiar force, points out how much, in...

...apparently sound, when the bricks were crumbling to pieces. I have read a description of the oak — Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more he dies. Sir Robert Walpole planted with his own hands many of the magnificent trees now the pride...

...S. TU!. 49.) /'Three centuries," &c. This is a translation of some lines of Ovid, by Dryden : — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...spreads by slow degrees : Three centuries he grows, nod three he stays. Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." The authority for this is E. Bysshe's...

...die, his will ordains, The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the les as she sits, With horror seiz'd. The wither'd...Around her head, of the same russet hue, Almost de ; So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So rivers,...

...in search — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by siow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." I think it probable that they are from a play of Drydcn or Otway ; but some of your readers may probably...

...world is great and gay, Doth as a vapour vanish and decay. Spenser. The monarch oak Three centuries grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. Dryden. Each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer, and now darker days. ****** Taught...

...His will ordains ; lose The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, ioeo Supreme in state, and in three more decays : So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns...

...of form and size, attaining in many instances an age supposed to be not less than a thousand years : The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Of the antiquity of the oak in the British islands, and the enormous size which our indigenous oaks...

...digitata) or Mowanas grow on the banks of Lake Ngami in Southern Africa. One of them is 76 feet in girth. The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. The history of the oak, whether natural or traditional, is (as Professor Burnett justly remarks) replete...