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" 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... "
Modern Painters ... - Page 282
by John Ruskin - 1856
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 70

1808 - 1016 pages
...sated with the martial shew, That peopl'd all the plain below, The wand'ring 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 on their sable turrets flow, In morning beams were shed, And tinged...
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Select Reviews, Volumes 1-2

1809 - 914 pages
...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 lier sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...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 arid slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: Marmion; a tale of Flodden field

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...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...beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Lake that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 76

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,...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain helow, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red...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 which...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 4

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain beltfw, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red...huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope...
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Marmion

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...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...beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1821 - 530 pages
...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...beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope...
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Quarterly Review, Volumes 27-28

1822 - 1148 pages
...The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For in the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams wore shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud : Such dusky...
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