...him in a situation admjrably adapted to the nurture of his peculiar feelings, laid at length " Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along the wood," and assimilating the fate of an unfortunate stag, who had been wounded by the hunters, and...

...hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook...brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish ; and, indeed,...

...rich woods, and rendered beautiful by a bold inequality of surface. The noble trunk of a very aged oak, " Whose antique root peeps out " Upon the brook that brawls along the wood," spreads its majestic branches on an eminence in the park, and is said to have been planted...

...hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook,...brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester 'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish ; and, indeed,...

...hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : (5) To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did...

...hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook...brawls along this wood : ( ^ To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish ; and, indeed,...

...hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:7 To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did...

...that brawls along this wood 7 : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish ; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting; and...

...hath banish d you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood 7 : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come...

...that in As You Like It, where Jacques moralizes on the wounded deer.* Milton's descriptions of * Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along the wood, Paradise, as has been well deserved, have " little of the freshness of nature in them." His...