Sylvan Sketches Or a Companion to the Park And the Shrubbery With Illustratio
Sylvan Sketches Or a Companion to the Park And the Shrubbery With Illustratio
Elizabeth Kent
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It adds new dignity to the ruined tower, and Gothic arch ; it throws its arms with propriety over the mantling pool, and may be happily introduced even in the lowest scene. "" " Imperial oak, a cottage in thy shade Finds safety, or a monarch in thy arms : Respectful generations see thee spread, Careless of centuries, even in decay Majestic : thy far-shadowing boughs contend With time ; the obsequious winds shall visit thee, To scatter round the children of thy age, And eternize thy latest benef...its. " W. TlftHE. " It is remarkable, 11 says Dr. Hunter, " that the Oak was held sacred by the Greeks, the Romans, the Gauls, and the Britons. "" It is frequently mentioned by the Roman poets as the tree of Jove, to whom it was dedicated. Near to Chaonia 288 SYLVAN SKETCHES. (a mountainous part of Epirus, so called from Chaon, one of the sons of Priam), was a forest of Oaks, called the Chaonian, or Dodonean Forest, where oracles were given, as some say, by the trees themselves ; according to others, by the winds of the forest that whispered through them ; and others maintain that they were pro- nounced by sacred doves.
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