 | Sir James Caird - Agriculture - 1850 - 222 pages
...splendour red ; • For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The noonday beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. " While eastward far, with purer blaze, On Keeper mountains fell the rays, And as each... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 pages
...lovely evening towards the end of June, just when the sun was thinking of going down at Edinburgh, " where the huge castle holds its state, and all the steep slope down." Well, indeed, might Sir Walter speak of " mine own romantic town," for a better and more descriptive... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smokewreaths huge and slow, That round the sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud." Vary or banish altogether the above rhymes, and the effect is spoilt. Another fine instance of the... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Poetics - 1852 - 310 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smokewreaths huge and slow, That round the sahle turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud." Vary or banish altogether the above rhymes, and the effect is spoilt. Another fine instance of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. i Sect dasky grandeur clothed the height, Wuire the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Wb*e rklgy back heaves to the sky, Pik-1 deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !'... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 406 pages
...we all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott: — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, AVhose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 448 pages
...all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott : — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Europe - 1854 - 418 pages
...we all exclaimed at its beauty, so worthily commemorated by Scott: — " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steeps slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 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...huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope clown, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets now, 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, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
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The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow 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... 
