 | 1847 - 440 pages
...each cliff a narrow bower ; Fox-glove and night-shade, side and side, Emblems of punishment and pride, So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." We arrived at Stewart's hotel, the only one in this part of the Highlands, indeed, the only house in... | |
 | 1847 - 112 pages
...The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world, " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream;" he beholds trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breath of brim,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's .). /r— Unless he climb, with footing... | |
 | Edward William Harcourt - 1851 - 250 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF MADEIRA. *' The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." WALTER SCOTT. Approach to Madeira. — Mount Church. — Visit boat. — Beach. — Funchal. — Prazas.—... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...be exaggerated — at least, upon a first visit it does not seem so ; and one is ready to exclaim, " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream !" Here again, in the heart of the gorge, our Gael exclaimed " There is Beal-an-Duine, where the gallant... | |
 | Anna Maria Collins - 1853 - 386 pages
...toward "Wolf-Gap." 4 nphr 5. " The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue, So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." IT was near the middle of the month of May. The little pale pink and blue blossoms were just beginning... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 418 pages
...sight-seekers below. The scene is closed by a view of the Trosachs, (Troschen, bristled territory,) which is " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Here we found an excellent inn, much resorted to during the summer months by tourists, and persons... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 412 pages
...sight-seekers below. The scene is closed by a view of the Trosachs, (Troschen, bristled territory,) which is " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Here we found an excellent inn, much resorted to during the summer months by tourists, and persons... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth... | |
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Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. 
