...investigation. As for literature, it is added to and multiplied, until its pages are more than the " autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched imbower." The forces of both good and evil find their arant courier in the printed message....

...Thick as leaves in Vallombrasa. This familiar quotation is from Milton's Paradise Lost, \. 302 : *' Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower." Vallombrosa was a famous abbey in Tuscany, at an elevation of about 3000 feet on the wooded...

...mace ; With gather'd strength the quick-descending blow Wounds in its fall, and stuns the unwary foe ; Thick as autumnal leaves that .strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched, imbower. HILTOH. — Par. Lost, i. 309. Then thus contemptuous : " All thy power is guie...

...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions, angel-forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched embower, or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red...

...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, embower ; or scatcer'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose...

...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...where the Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, embower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red- Sea coast, whose...

...the same play. Compare Much Ado, ii. I. 180 : ' these ill news ;' and v. 2. 102 : 'this news.' " * Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.' Vallombrosa was a famous abbey in Tuscany, at an elevation of about 3000 feet on the wooded...

...the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called 300 His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed 305 Hath vexed...

...on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions, angel forms, who lay intranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etruilan shades, High over-arch'd, bnbower; or scatter VI sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion...

...Minerva. In writing of our happy experiences here, how shall I make a selection, when our joys have been " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In...where the Etrurian shades High overarch'd embower " ? These familiar lines from " Paradise Lost " occurred to us on Galileo's Tower, whose steps the...