 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...expanse to which it stretches out as we proceed. Mr. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Canto I. St. 13. " Advancing by the side of the lake, we pass along a road, cut out with immense labour,... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...that majestic width it soon assumes, being, as Sir W. Scott has well described it, ' " A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The road passes along the side of the lake, cut out with immense labour, in a solid rock which overhangs... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 222 pages
...contracted body of water which stretches out as you proceed. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Benan " heaves high his forehead bare" above the mountains of the Trosachs. For several hundred yards... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. xnl. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,... | |
 | Scottish tourist - Scotland - 1832 - 490 pages
...highest rock of this island. Issuing from the dell, the Tourist discovers a narrow inlet to LOCH KATRINE, almost cut off from the main body of the water by...clearness, have a murky hue, caused by the deep shadows of Benvenue's overhanging masses and the Trosachs ; the island in front appears as a lovely grove ; the... | |
 | Scottish tourist - Scotland - 1836 - 498 pages
...the island. One of the greatest charms about the Trosachs is the suddenness with which Loch-Katrine bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of...Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward amid the copse 'gan peep, A narrow islet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim, Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing, Tall rocks and tufted... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing. Tall rocks and tufted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gau peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild -duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing, Tall rocks and tufted... | |
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gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. 
