 | 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 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 Oehil mountaius fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kiss'd. It gleam'da purple amethyst. Yonder... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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...Mine own romantic town! But northward far, with purer Maze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kiss'd, It gleam'da purple amethyst.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 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...huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope clown, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic... | |
 | 1856 - 674 pages
...to recall — give a glowing yet accurate picture of the outline of this groat thoroughfare : — ' Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high — It has been related, though we cannot give the anecdote authoritatively, that when Francis Jeffrey... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 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...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Filed deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town t But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! J But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud, Such dusky grandeur...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! l But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Oswald Jackson - 1858 - 300 pages
...— ' Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge Castle holds his state, And all the deep slope down ; Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !' And now he climbs the Castle Hill, and gains the window of the little room ' where Queen Mary gave... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that wliich streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed...the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, Anil all the steep elope down, Whre-e ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and... | |
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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,... 
