 The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the...  The Poetical Works of Walter Scott - Página 48por sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 314 páginas
...exquisite tracery work—-Melrose Abbey again! " Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. " It is but a fragment standing alone upon a rock, and so light, that you... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 páginas
...foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone," Lost in admiration, and in many strange thoughts, I scarcely heeded the young man who had opened the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow- wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 462 páginas
...verse of Sir Walter. "Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Many of the Douglas family, as well- as other noted persons in Scotch annals,... | |
 | Lady Isabella Wellwood Stoddart - 1854 - 170 páginas
...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the o/ier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed...was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." CHAPTER IX. . WHEN Mrs. Martin and Captain Elliott arrived at Kclso, they went direct to Mr. Lament's.... | |
 | George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 páginas
...foliaged tracery combined; Thou would'st have thought some fairy hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to stone." In the roof of the chancel, on the keystones, are some curiously carved figures... | |
 | 1854 - 380 páginas
...tracen- combined ; ' Thou wouldat have thought some faery's hud, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier vrand, in many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are some of them very... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 páginas
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand Twist poplars straight the ozier wand. In many a freakish...the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pule ami faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saiut, Whose image on the glass was dyed; Full in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 páginas
...of shapely stone, By toliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 páginas
...than just figure — " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.'' Lay of the Last Minstrel. The cloisters formed a quadrangle on the north-west... | |
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