| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding lay, With promontory,...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags,... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...gleaming with the setting sun. One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length far winding lay, With promontory,...livelier light; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben venue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags,... | |
| 1810 - 430 pages
...and Communications; (post paid), will be received, 1811. No. 44. SATURDAY, JUNE 29. One burnish' d sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. SCOTT. TO THE SPY. SIR, , I CONCLUDED my last with an account of my evenings... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...sutl, One bnramh'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length tar winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And...livelier light; And mountains, that like giants stand, To »eiumi 1 enchanted land. High on the south, hug« Ben-Venue ilu'.Mi to the lake in massée threw (,'un.ujT.... | |
| James Hogg - 1821 - 356 pages
...the evening, and we were as happy as Highland cheer and Highland whisky could make us. One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. SCOTT. He entertained me with stories of ancient superstition, and anecdotes... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - History - 1821 - 470 pages
...impatient sight like a " burnished sheet of living gold" that gleaming with the declining sun — " In all her length far winding lay "With promontory,...mountains that like giants stand " To sentinel enchanted land.1' — S«OTT. The Indian name for this lake is Kom-tonor-gog-omog, — the Canadians call it... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch- Katrine lay beneath him...livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls,... | |
| William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...gold." Marmion. " And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him...With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands, that impurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains that like giants stand, To centinel... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...gleaming wiih the sotting sun, One buruish'd sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rol I'd, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory,...To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Beii-vemir Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolU, and mounds, confusedly hurl '1 The fragments... | |
| 1828 - 452 pages
...burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, In all her length far-winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, large Benvenue Down on the lake its masses threw, Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The... | |
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