 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...great is always. " And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the lone crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The ran in all its round surveyed." Not that these could have been instinctive in a child in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wait I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall." Passing over his... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew,1 O * And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1858 - 100 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon, between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 734 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But, ever and anon, between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - English poetry - 1860 - 296 pages
...fence, with Wall-flowers gay: To me more pleasure yield Than all the pomp imperial domes display. SCOTT. AND well the lonely infant Knew Recesses where the Wall -flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl, Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks the sweetest shade... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...barren scene and wild, Where naked cliff* were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay yd vet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...IT was a barren scene and wild where naked cliffs were rudely piled, but ever and anon between lay velvet tufts of loveliest green: and well the lonely infant knew recesses where the wall-flower grew, and honey-suckle loved to crawl up the low crag and ruined wall. 1 deemed such nooks... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
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Though scarce a puny streamlet's speed Claimed homage from a shepherd's reed; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet... 
