 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
 | 1860 - 964 pages
...huge Castle holds its state, And nH tho steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic...Burdie House ¡ there's rare fossil fish and other creature got at its lime quarries, they tell me. Ah ! I've mony a time seen puir Hugh Miller, wha's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 602 pages
...IV, stanza 30: "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!" 2. Quotation unidentified. 3. Bryant... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1974 - 356 pages
...ne'er surveyed. 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! Yonder the shores of Fife you saw; Here... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2006 - 401 pages
...Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge eastle holds its state, AIM! all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Filed...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " Edinburgh has had an effect on the literary history of the world for the last fifty years, that... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1871 - 840 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...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each healthy top they... | |
 | 1884 - 968 pages
...closes of that picturesque stretch of lofty habitations from where — " The castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massive, close and high, Mine own romantic town." These, I say, will, all in their own... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1868 - 868 pages
...streaks 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,... | |
 | Alex McCallum - 2017 - 226 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... | |
 | 1835 - 328 pages
...Restalrig. CHAPTER XIII. A 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! • After a walk, or a run, or a ride,... | |
 | Geography reading books - 1880 - 238 pages
...• t • t • Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state j 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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