 But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.  First (second) geographical reader - Page 42by Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pages
...the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1815 - 466 pages
...shatter'd way And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 498 pages
...the hill. And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep CHencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | 1850 - 938 pages
...wood-craft well; and hill-craft and river-craft ; yet in his fine picture of Coriskin and Coolin, " The wildest glen but this can show Some touch of nature's genial glow : On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruachan Ben... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 314 pages
...the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 410 pages
...the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 290 pages
...the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Ouchan-Ben;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 pages
...the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1830 - 350 pages
...rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow. But here—above, around, below. On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor... | |
 | George Tattersall - 1836 - 392 pages
...undergoes, by the sight which gradually opens upon his view. Nature revels in her wildest grandeur, here, above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken ; * That to the right leads to Great Langdale. Black... | |
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