 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1897 - 302 pages
...THE OAKS : "The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Both the ancient inhabitants of Greece and of Britain worshipped the oak; and in all ages, among all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 120 pages
...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 Supreme in state, and in three more decays. i°45 So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet ; So... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1898 - 168 pages
...glance. 7 " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays " (DRYDEN). This is to seyn, in youthe or elles age, He moot ben deed, the king as shal a page ; Som... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 108 pages
...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, Supreme in state, and in three more decays: 1055 So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet: So rivers,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 184 pages
...remains. 2330 The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays : So wears the paving pebble in the street, 2336 And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So... | |
 | Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station - 1898 - 1278 pages
...oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries lie grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." — Drydctt. The Oaks belong to that group of trees that are often spoken of as "hardwoods." While... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 224 pages
...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, Supreme in state, and in three more decays : 1055 And towns and towers their fatal periods0 meet : So rivers, rapid once, now naked lie, Forsaken... | |
 | 1910 - 350 pages
...(Quercus) •'The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up. and spreads by slow degreesi Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." — Drydett. The Oaks belong to that group of trees that are often spoken of as "hardwoods." While... | |
 | 1901 - 476 pages
...CHORLEY. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays — Supreme in state, and in three more decays. — DRYDEN. The oak, when living monarch of the wood ; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.... | |
 | 1901 - 408 pages
...asserted : " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays." J. STONE. [1804, Part II., p. 909.] Sherston. Fig. 3 in the accompanying Plate is a figure at Sherston,... | |
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The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays... 
