...abbey of the Fountain. " ' Worthy indeed of note Are those fraternal yews of lone Skeldale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !...trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Not nnmform'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillar'd shade, Upon whose grassless...

...earlier Crecy or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary tree, a living thing, Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed." DERWENT WATER AND ITS ISLANDS. ERWENT Water may be seen to advantage from several eminences near, with...

...particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged 61 Perennially — beneath...

...battles, the poet proceeds : 'But worthier still of note Are thoee fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !...Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Upcoiling, and inveteratcly convolved, — »This passage — one of Ihe noblest instances of the moral aublime —...

...Cressy or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.' " At the Globe inn at Cockermouth, I found all my wants well supplied ; and in visiting what is interesting...

...Cressy or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree ! — a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed." * * There are some fine remains of the yew extant in the lake country, witness the Lorton, Borrowdale,...

...Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! — a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect...Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterntely convolved, — Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profnne; —...

...Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! — a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect...particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine I'p-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — .Vor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten...

...early Cressy or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and profound, This solitary tree ! a living thing, Produced too slowly ever to decay. Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. Bat worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrodale, Joined in one solemn and capacious...

...presence and the influences of this faculty. From the poem on the YEW TREES,»0 vol. i., page 303, 304. " But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four...and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted 6bres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That...