 Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the Cameleon, who can...  Rob Roy. By the author of 'Waverley'. - Page 304by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 404 pages
...And, while she scratch'd her lover into rest, * Sank pleased though hungry on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing,... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...food, And, while she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sank pleased though hungry on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1880 - 556 pages
...efforts of imagination than his description of Scotland in the " Prophecy of Famine," beginning — " Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet, scorn 'd the lively green; No living thing whate'cr, its food, feasts there, But the Camdcon who can... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...whilst she scratched her lover uito rest, Sunk pleaded, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far a,* The eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in "russet, scorned the lively jjrceu : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For In three hours a grasshopper... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 476 pages
...to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my fortune to entertain. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green ; No birds, except the birds of passage flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - 1884 - 282 pages
...may be proper to mention that the real heroes of this incident were both Longhope men. CHAPTER XVI. " Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green. " 'THROUGHOUT the various mosses in these islands are stillto be foundmanyremainsof... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...setting day ; Sawney as long without remorse could bawl Home's madrigals, and ditties from Fingal. . . . Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die : No living thing,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1886 - 898 pages
...description of the " land of brown heath and shaggy wood " is almost grotesque in its extravagance. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen. Earth clad in russet scorned the lively green, The plague of locusts they, secure, defy, For in three hours a grasshopper... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 892 pages
...description of the " land of brown heath and shaggy wood " is almost grotesque in its extravagance. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet scorned the lively green, The plague of locusts they, secure, defy, For in three hours a grasshopper... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 pages
...would have died ere practised, Till bondage sunk his soul to his condition. Tht Prison, Act i. Scene 3. FAR as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green ; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no... | |
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