 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 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...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town I But northward far with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunders-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town 1 But northward far, with purer blaze. On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 418 pages
...were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Bach dusty grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle...state, And all the steep slope down. Whose ridgy back heares to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! Bat northward far,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 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...the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 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-... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1873 - 614 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...heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and hi^h, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 pages
...her sable 2 turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre ' proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur...deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic 4 town ! THE SOLITARY SAILOR. 12. The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie, David Kelley Guthrie - 1874 - 496 pages
...all Sir Walter's enthusiasm, the famous lines from Marmion :— EDINBURGH AND THE COVENANTERS. 361 * Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " But the older parts of Edinburgh possessed, in Dr. Guthrie's eyes, one special feature of interest with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 pages
...through the two Hnc^ in italics, on conceiving the magnificent picture which replaces Uiem in the text.1 Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town 1 ' But northward far, with purer hlaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...Like that which streaks a thunder-cloml. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the hugecastle m ; Till, slow arranging, and defined, they seem To...lofty room, Part lighted by a lamp with silver beam, ki •-•'!, It gleam'da purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw; Here Preston-hay, 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,... 
