 When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams...  Quarterly Review - Page 3221822Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 1808 - 1016 pages
...; For on the smoke wreaths, huge and slow, That on their sable turrets flow, In 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 huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that...heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...For on the smoke-wreaths, huge arid slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud Such dusky grandeur clothed the heightj Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round lier sable turrets flow, The 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 huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Lake that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur...heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays,... | |
 | 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 ยป11 the steep' slope down. Whose ridgy back heares to fhe sky, TUed deep and mossy, close and high,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...; For on the smoke-wreaths huge and slow, That round her sahle turrets flow, The morning heams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that...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...heaves to the sky. Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 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...heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays,... | |
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