 | Edward Rogers - 1861 - 116 pages
...here and there, wherever it can, a glimpse of sunlight from the dense foliage which hangs over it— " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Then it turns into a placid dark stream, flowing at the foot of a sloping lawn, then up again another... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1861 - 788 pages
...Grey birch and aspen weep beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock. So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. " Near the entrance of the gorge, at a place named Bealan Duine, Fitz-James lost his " gallant grey,"... | |
 | Cuthbert Bede - 1863 - 458 pages
...Trosachs, we may easily imagine that, when he recalls the scene, Scott's lines will be realised — So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. The only erroneous impression which, as it seems to me, the perusal of Scott's verse would leave on... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1863 - 460 pages
...Trosachs, we may easily imagine that, when he recalls the scene, Scott's lines will be realised — So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. The only erroneous impression which, as it seems to me, the perusal of Scott's verse would leave on... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 190 pages
...frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky. ****** So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Suddenly emerging from this wondrous scene, a sight of fresh beauty burst upon the gaze of the travellers,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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 ken, Unless he climb, with footing... | |
 | 1865 - 1136 pages
...frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow' d sky. nnaann So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Suddenly emerging from this wondrous scene, a sight of fresh beauty burst upon the gaze of the travellers,... | |
 | 1865 - 786 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." Wo walked many times up and down the glen, during our stay ; till its minuter beauties, as well as... | |
 | James Glass Bertram - 1865 - 578 pages
...soughs adown some weird vale, hah0 hidden from us by the clouds that float over it, the scene looks " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Looking around, one could feel that the island has a history, if we could but ascertain it. Books have... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 370 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, 1 [MS. — " His scathed trunk,... | |
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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. 
