Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. The Lady of the Lake - Página 9por Walter Scott - 1926 - 238 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1831 - 480 páginas
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, " still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused by the deep shadows of Benvenue's... | |
| 1831 - 62 páginas
...the scene of action and gives name to the pass, the stranger obtains a first glimpse of LochKetturin, A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As serve the wild duck's brood to swim. On reaching the banks of Loch-Ketturin, he will be astonished... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...narrowed sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's...the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. [From The Lady of the Lake.] A PICTURE OF ELLE\. AND ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad,... | |
| Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 páginas
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, " still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused by the deep shadows of Benvenue's... | |
| J. Coad - 1832 - 334 páginas
...point of Knock-ross, and part of the expanded water, are seen from this path to great advantage. " Onward amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording just such breadth of brim As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. * # * # # Yet broader floods extending... | |
| James Johnson - 1834 - 262 páginas
...shatter'd trunk." " Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glittering streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's...the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Though this portrait is highly flattered, there is some verisimilitude between it and the original.... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 250 páginas
...trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, Its boughs athwart the narrowed sky. So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." /.•)./;/ of the Lake. This is jundoubtedly the dell, waterfall, and cave alluded to by the author... | |
| Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 páginas
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, - still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused... | |
| 1837 - 236 páginas
...narrow sky, Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's...the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward amid the copse 'gan peep, A narrow islet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 páginas
...narrow'd sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's...swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing. Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror... | |
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