| British periodicals - 1808 - 704 pages
...proud Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud, Sucrndusky grandeur clothed the height Where the hug; castle holds its state} And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, PiUd deep an<i massy close and higtt Mine own roountic town. CASTO V. On descending from the hills... | |
| Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. » •. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed,... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantick. town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, V On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled dee]) and massy, close and high. Mine own romantick town! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 320 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! CANTO IV. But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed,... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tingi'd them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town. But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the ray«, And is each heatliy top they kissed,... | |
| English literature - 1814 - 1032 pages
...most singular and striking description. " Well might our poet, in viewing such scenes, exclaim : iurh dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And »11 the steep' slope down. Whose ridgy back heares to fhe sky, TUed deep and mossy, close and high,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...morning heams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy hack heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kiss'd,... | |
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