 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 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.) - 1873 - 264 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge ani 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. ' (US.— " 'Tis better sitting still at rait, Than rising but to fall ; And while these... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...splendour red ; For, on the smoke wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable 2 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 Thomas Dick Lauder - Rivers - 1874 - 382 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... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie, David Kelley Guthrie - Presbyterian Church - 1876 - 472 pages
...rock, Dr. Guthrie would quote, with all Sir "Walter's enthusiasm, the famous lines from Marmion : — " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy hack heaves to the sky, Filed deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " But the older... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow That round her sable turret's flow, The oon, within that mirror huge and high, Was seen a self-emitted light to gleam ; And for thunder-cloml. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the hugecastle holds its state, And all... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 446 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-clou Such dusky grandeur clothed 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 - 1877 - 688 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... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 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... | |
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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... 
