 | Leitch Ritchie - 1835 - 350 pages
...returned to Scotland, and married the daughter of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig. CHAPTER XIII. A dtuky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle...and massy, close and high. Mine own romantic town! After a walk, or a run, or a ride, or a ramble — which you will — of about seven miles, we reach... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...round her sable turrets now, The Morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur...castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, \\~hose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town!... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 pages
...tinged them with a lustre prond, Like that whieh streaks a thunder-elond. Sueh dusky grandeur elothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy haek heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, elose and high, Mine own romantie town ! But northward... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...ting'd them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud. Snch dusky grandeur cloth'd t. v. * brothe ridçy hack heaves to the sky, PU'd deep and massy, close and high — Mine own romantic town ! Yonder... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like ung up, and darting hie spear, like a javelin, at...triumph with the horse, which he committed to the car Sack heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! 8 But northward... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 pages
...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...Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, porary of Charlemagne, and founder of the celebrated League with France ; but later antiquaries make... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...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...mountains fell the rays, And, as each heathy top they kiss'd, It gleam'da purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw : Here Preston-bay, and Berwick-law... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...round her sahle turrets flowt The mormng heams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur...height, Where the huge castle holds its state And all tin; steep slope down, Whose ridgy hack neaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...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...romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ocb.il mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst. Yonder... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 pages
...the last summons with joy. Edge Hill, Liverpool, Jan. 1, 1848. REMINISCENCES OF EDINBUEGH CASTLE. « The height Where the huge Castle holds its state,...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town." So sang Scotland's second poet (for we hold Burns to be the first), while apostrophizing his " own... | |
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With gloomy splendour red ; 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 which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height,... 
