...organs of sense. Lastly, concerning the oak, should be mentioned the great age which it attains — The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. Nine hundred years, that is to say, constitute the ordinary term of oaklife. But there are in Great...

...frequently introduced from its associations, or to convey the ideas of strength, endurance, or vigour. " The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." — DRYDEN. Variety of colour, as well as of form, is suggested by the 10th sheet, the Convolvulus...

...die, his will ordains ; The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, arid in three more decays ; So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal...

...in the orchard. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots slowly up, and spreads by low degrees; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Name, the verbs expressing sentient properties of action in the following sentences:— The spider...

...curtains dress, And teach young minds to hate what God hath deigned to bless ! *" The monarch oak, Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Whose stunted minds are shrouded with a gloom, — A melancholy night that knows no day ; Whose hopes...

...die, his will ordains; ' 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, 1060 ' Supreme in state, and in three more decays : ' So wears the paving pebble in the street, ' And...

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...beauty's due, High on a plane-tree shall be hung to view. DRYDEN. 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. DRYDEN. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain, And spread in solemn majesty supinely reign....

...ordains, The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch or the trees. Snoots ofound, And straitens thy diffusive ; dwarfs the whole....an orrery. But when I drop mine eye, and look on ma ; So wears the paving pebble in the street. And towns and towers their fntnl periods mret : So riven,...

...experience in choosing the most rapid-growing substitute could succeed in replacing it in a lifetime. ' Three centuries he grows; and three he stays, Supreme in state; and in three more decays.' The Salcy Forest Oak in Northamptonshire could have told, if gifted with speech, of thrice five, not...