 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! l But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! J But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Oswald Jackson - 1858 - 300 pages
...— ' Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge Castle holds his state, And all the deep slope down ; Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !' And now he climbs the Castle Hill, and gains the window of the little room ' where Queen Mary gave... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1858 - 312 pages
...valley that girdles it on the north, west, and south, sinking away to the east in a long slope — " Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high." East-Lothian presents several well-marked instances ; in particular, North Berwick Law and Traprain.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that wliich streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, Anil all the steep elope down, Whre-e ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed" the height, Where the...mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw ; Here Preston Bay and Berwick... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Whore the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep...purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And aa each heathy top t%ey kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw ; Here... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...to recall — give a glowing yet accurate picture of the outline of this great thoroughfare : — ' Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...massy, close and high — Mine own romantic town! ' It has been related, though we cannot give the anecdote authoritatively, that when Francis Jeffrey... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 394 pages
...dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope adown, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town." But even in this outburst dedicated to his " own romantic town," his fancy passes instinctively to the... | |
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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,... 
