 The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round...  Poetical Works - Pagina 208door Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 970 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pagina’s
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pagina’s
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. X. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pagina’s
...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...below. Where twined the path, in shadow hid. Round many 8 rocky pyramid. Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Hound many an insulated... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pagina’s
...Apposite to our present subject are these splendid lines of " Caledonia's much lamented son :" — " The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen...rocky pyramid ; Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | Thomas Rose - 1832 - 238 pagina’s
...Apposite to our present subject are these splendid lines of " Caledonia's much lamented son :" — " The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen...rocky pyramid ; Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living lire, But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pagina’s
...exceed the glowing description given by Sir Walter Scott : " The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way, Each purple peak, each...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 394 pagina’s
...Round and around the sounds were cast, Till echo seemed an answering blast; And on the hunter hied hia way, To Join some comrades of the day ; Yet often...beam could glow "Within the dark ravines below, Where twin'd the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - 1838 - 362 pagina’s
...years ago, come down in his wrath, and shivered them by his lightnings. This is the very spot where Not a setting beam could glow, Within the dark ravines...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell, Its thunder-splintered pinnacle. In short to borrow the words of an English tourist, " It seems as if a... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 588 pagina’s
...nature : " Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire, But not a rising beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where...mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the towers which builders vain, Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent,... | |
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