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
| 1910 - 1016 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, NATURAL SURROUNDINGS OF EDINBURGH EDINBURGH is rich in environs... | |
| 1910 - 1042 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!" NATURAL SURROUNDINGS OF EDINBURGH «... | |
| Walter Scott - 1911 - 280 pages
...a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle J 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,... | |
| Alex McCallum - 1912 - 228 pages
...couchant lion of Arthur's Seat and rising to the Rock, " 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 ! " On the hills of Braid, where Johnnie... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 304 pages
...a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur cloth'd the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Pil'd deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
| Alfred H. Hyatt - 1913 - 492 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,... | |
| Chartered Insurance Institute - 1919 - 404 pages
...has written : — 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 ! EDINBURGH AS AN INSURANCE CENTRE. Edinburgh... | |
| Mrs. Alexander Lawson, Alexander Lawson - 1920 - 310 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 - 1923 - 896 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,... | |
| David Watson Rannie - 1926 - 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 far, with purer blaze,... | |
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