...doubtless remember the beautiful simile uttered by Warwick when dying on the field of Barnet :— " Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle." Th, Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 2. • The conscious superiority of the eagle is depicted by Tamora,...

...churl, drink all, and leave no friendly drop To help me after! I must yield my body to the earth : Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's pow'rful wind. SHAKSPEARE. Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably. SHAKSPEARE. I have heard thee say,...

...Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. Shakespeare. 751. DEATH : the universal conqueror. ; Rewards, that either would to virtue bring No joy;...! To whom can riches give repute or trust, Content Shakespeare. But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there,...

...and hence, a brood, kind; stocke, linage.' 76. the cedar's top. Compare 3 Henry VI, v. 2. 11, 12: ' Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle.' And Marlowe, Edward the Second (ed. Dyce, 1862, p. 195): ' A lofty cedar-tree, fair flourishing, On...

...Third Part of King Henry FL, where the Earl of Warwick compares his own fall to that of the cedar, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ; Act v. Sc. 2. was doubtless derived, as is pointed out in a note of Steevens, from the prophet Ezekiel,...

...yield my body to the earth/ 191) And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. Thus yields the cedar (162) to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the...Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, ( ln ) my mangled body shows, • • *•••••• That I mu»t yield my body to the earth,]...

...sick heart shows That I must yield my body to the earth, And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. 10 Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil, Have been as piercing as the midday sun, To...

...knoll the pointed cedar shadows Drowse on the crisp, pray moss. a. LOWELL—An Indian-Hummer Reverie. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle. b. Henry VI. Pt. III. AetV. Sc. 2. High on a hill a goodly Cedar grewe, Of wond'rous length, and streight...

...and hence, a brood, kind; stocke, linage.' 76. the cedar's lop. Compare 3 Henry VI, v. 2. II, 12: ' Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle.' And Marlowe, Edward the Second (ed. Dyce, 1862, p. 195): ' A lofty cedar-tree, fair flourishing, On...

...sick heart shows, That I must yield my body to the earth And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. 10 Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...tree And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil, Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,...