The River Erdré runs northward of the city, and forms a beautiful feature, winding for many miles among cultivated fields and woodlands, through a country agreeably diversified with villas, to which the wealthier inhabitants retire during the summer months.

In speaking of "embattled walls, raised on the mountain precipice," he particularises "Beaudesert; Old Montfort's seat;"a place, which, though it is pleasantly diversified with hill and dale, has no pretensions of so lofty a kind.

The way lay through pleasant lanes, and overlooked a region beautifully diversified with trees and grass[1200].

The following extract, (which is most properly to be scanned as anapestic, though considerably diversified,) has two lines, each of which is pretty evidently composed of a single anapest: Example II.A Chorus in the Same.

The plain is two days over, and for twenty days journey to the west, the country is well inhabited, and finely diversified with mountains, vallies, and woods.

And next, where, in the investigations which may be endlessly diversified, does intellect properly come in and give its help?

The country in the environs of this place is exceedingly diversified, and it presents the first mountain scenery we have yet met with.

Fortunately, in the '[S']akoontalá' the story is diversified and the interest well sustained by a chain of stirring incidents.

It cannot be a matter of controversy whether Beauty is limited to the human form; the daily experience of the most ordinary man would answer No: he finds it in the woods, the fields, in plants and animals, nay, in a thousand objects, as he looks upon nature; nor, though indefinitely diversified, does he hesitate to assign to each the same epithet.

It might be conceived, that of those who profess to forsake the narrow paths of truth, every one may deviate towards a different point, since, though rectitude is uniform and fixed, obliquity may be infinitely diversified.

The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solemnity; with merriment, that includes judicious and instructive observations; and solemnity, not strained by poetical violence above the natural sentiments of man.

Like the preceding example from Byron, they lack the uniformity of proper composites, and are rather to be regarded as anapestics irregularly diversified.

Yet he allows that rhyme may sometimes be borne, if the lines be often broken, and the pauses judiciously diversified.

"So our language has an other great advantage; namely, that it is little diversified by genders.

After threading hills for hours they came out upon a wide, rolling basin prettily diversified by low spurs of the encircling mountains and bluish green with the long grasses known as pin and grama.

Great Britain's activities are as refreshingly diversified as her talents.

The scene is richly diversified with hill and dale, while the spires, turrets, and towers of the university, rise high above the clustering trees, filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration.

Classic perfumery, in fact, was scarcely diversified, almost colorless and uniformly issuing from the mold cast by the ancient chemists.

The journey was arduous, and the advance may have sometimes seemed slow; but the incorporation of many strangely diversified communities, and of some three hundred millions of the human race, under British guidance and control has proceeded steadfastly and without pause.

The same humour is continued thro' the whole, and not unnaturally diversified, as most poems of that nature had been before.

And yet," with philosophic speculation, "these two widely diversified types are sometimes friends.

This sweet Swan of Thames has so artfully diversified his strains and his rhymes that the same thought never occurs twice,more justly, perhaps, as no thought ever occurs at all, there was a physical impossibility that the same thought should recur, It is long since I saw and read these inscriptions; but I remember the impression was of a smug usher at his desk in the intervals of instruction, levelling his pen.

These and other conditions will make most farming always an industry of comparatively diversified products.

These characters are so copiously diversified, and some of them so justly pursued, that his works may be considered, as a map of life, a faithful miniature of human transactions; and he that has read Shakespeare, with attention, will, perhaps, find little new in the crowded world.

The section through which it passes, before its junction with the Missouri, is represented as being elegantly diversified with woodlands, prairies, and rich bottoms, and the banks are lined with a luxuriant growth of plants and flowers.