| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 884 pages
...Like thai which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castlo holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, closo and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blare. On Oehil mountains... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...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...Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains... | |
| 1850 - 270 pages
...not to recall—give a glowing yet accurate picture of the outline of this great thoroughfare:— ' Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high— Mine own romantic town!' It has been related, though we cannot give the anecdote... | |
| 1883 - 676 pages
...lovely evening towards the end of June, just when the sun was thinking of going down at Edinburgh, " where the huge castle holds its state, and all the steep slope down." Well, indeed, might Sir Walter speak of " mine own romantic town," for a better and more descriptive... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...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...Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. i Sect dasky grandeur clothed the height, Wuire the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Wb*e rklgy back heaves to the sky, Pik-1 deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !'... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 406 pages
...we all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott: — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, AVhose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 448 pages
...all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott : — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 348 pages
..." Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " Edinburgh has had an effect on the literary history... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 418 pages
...we all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott: — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own... | |
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