 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled ; Bnt ever and anon between no Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green : And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysnckle loved to crawl, Up the low crag and ruined wall. 1 deemed sach nooks... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1871 - 534 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 honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1872 - 418 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 euch nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round surveyed." Not that these could have been instinctive... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 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 wallflower grew. And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd walL I deemed such nooks... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 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,2 And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1876 - 1140 pages
...in one of his poems : "The lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the lone crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed." More in keeping with the habit of the honeysuckle is the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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... | |
 | John Keble - Essays - 1877 - 584 pages
...It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely pil'd ; 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 lov'd to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1877 - 162 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 honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed 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... 
