 Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town!  Once a Week - Page 264edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 414 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down. Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! I But northward far with purer blaze,... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 436 pages
...apposite : — " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, When the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " New Edinburgh appeals to us in a different... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town I But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pages
...CONTRASTS. EDINBURGH. " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the hugejcastle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky Viled deep and massy, close and high Mine own romantic town." • (Marmion.) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward for, with purer blaze,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town I But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 572 pages
...CHATEAU8T. LOUIS. " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high Mine own romantic town." (Scott's Marmion.) " Few circumstances... | |
 | William Paterson (publisher.) - 1882 - 150 pages
...a thunder-cloud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state. And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town I But northward far with purer blaze.... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky. Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
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