 to my foe; Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle; Under whose shade the ramping lion slept; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from Winter's powerful wind.  The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 103by John Blair Linn - 1804 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1883
...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,... | |
 | 1883 - 184 pages
...the field of Barnet, give an admirablepicture of the character and power of the " king maker:"— " Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept, Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. These... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...all.—Dryden.) Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we. (Tit. And. iv. 3, 45.) I must yield my body to my foe. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge . . . Whose top branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. (3 Hen.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 374 pages
...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 veii, Have been as piercing as the midday sun, To... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 326 pages
...and hence, a brood, kind; stocke, linage.' Ib. the cedars top. 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... | |
 | Henry James Swallow - 1885 - 372 pages
...openly known, but surely such a thing was attempted." PART II.—CHAPTER VII. THE FALL OF WARWICK. " 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1885 - 334 pages
...cedar to the ax's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princdy That I must yield my body to the earth, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept, Whose top-branch...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,... | |
 | J. Scott Clark - 1886 - 410 pages
...universe I" 26. " My mangled body shows, My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows, Thus yield, the cedar to the axe's edge. Whose arms gave shelter...whose shade the ramping lion slept; Whose top-branch overpowered Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind." 27. " Superior... | |
 | 1888 - 646 pages
...simile he has drawn from the forests of his native Warwickshire, in " Henry VI., Part III.," v. 2 : Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. The same character in Part II. of the play (v. i) has already made use of the comparison : As on a... | |
 | 1888 - 640 pages
...simile he has drawn from the forests of his native Warwickshire, in “Henry VI., Part III.,” v. 2: Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms...tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. The same character in Part II. of the play (v. i) has already made use of the comparison: As on a mountain-top... | |
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