| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...comrades of the day ; Yet often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it sliow'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...comrades of the day ; Yet often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...following passages are decidedly superior to any thing in -that style he had before produced. " The wettern waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty ipire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Witllin the dark ravines... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...passages are decidedly superior to any thing in that style he had before produced. " The western wares of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; ., Each purple peak, each flinty »pire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it showed. XI. The western waves of ehhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was hathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting heam conld glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...most beautiful descriptions in the Lady of the Lake : — " The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below —... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
| James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...can be more literally correct or poetically beautiful: — " The western waves of ebhing day Waved o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. J?ut not a setting beam could glow, Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd on the glen their level ray ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twin'd the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Round many an insulated mass, The native... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day RolTd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire, But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where... | |
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