 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
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1904 - 602 pages
...around them, they let their gaze travel onward to — " 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." If her claims to beauty could be urged... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1905 - 460 pages
...scene around them, they let their gaze travel onward i " 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." If her claims to beauty could be urged... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1906 - 462 pages
...LE MOINE, FRSC " 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." — Marmion. IN describing the antique... | |
 | W. T. Fyfe - 1906 - 358 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 !' CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE Edinburgh in... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1894 - 532 pages
...CONTRASTS. EDINBURGH. " 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." (Marmion.) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, As President,... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 536 pages
...recollection of Spain. 360 " 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." Sir W. Scott. 1848. 201 The ruins of... | |
 | 1905 - 584 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,... | |
 | Eleanor Mary Sellar - 1907 - 412 pages
...CHAPTER XIII. " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Filed deep and many, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " — SCOTT. " The grey metropolis of the North." —... | |
 | Robert Pickett Scott - 1907 - 458 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,... | |
 | 1908 - 554 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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