 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 394 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, 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. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...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 iiusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | 1865 - 396 pages
...massive and picturesque grouping of its venerable neighbour, where— • " Such dusky grandeur clothes the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Wh'ise ridgy back heaves to the sky. Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town 1"... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...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, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...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 thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the heigbt, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...gloomy splendor 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, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets How, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandenr clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...beams w«re Hied, And tinged them with a ln-ítri! proud. Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its btate, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky. Piled deep and massy, close... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - English literature - 1869 - 528 pages
...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, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, 10 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... 
