 | Anna Deborah Richardson - Anglican converts - 1877 - 340 pages
...an acquaintance with forbidden literature, when, in a school essay, she quoted Scott's lines : — "And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud." If Scott's poems were tabooed, it may be imagined that all novels were strictly prohibited ; and it... | |
 | K. H - 1878 - 160 pages
...city in the world: " 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.) - 1878 - 280 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 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.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 pages
...splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The mornmg 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... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1880 - 538 pages
...splendor red ; For on the smoke-wreaihs, huge and slow. That round her sable tmteia flow. The morning beam were shed. And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height. Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 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... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - Scotland - 1882 - 330 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 height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | William Paterson (publisher.) - 1882 - 150 pages
...gloomy splendour red ; or, on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets Haw, 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... 
