| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 páginas
...given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked clifls were rudely piled ; But ever and anon between Lay...lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, latter days, with equal justice, conferred on Miss Mary Lilias Scott, the last of the elder branch... | |
| Frances Sargent Osgood - 1848 - 308 páginas
...which the barbarians of feudal ages had recklessly done to the battlemented pile. Scott says : — And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the...honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed. We are told that the minstrels... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed ; And still I thought that... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 390 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed ; And still I thought that... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 398 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed ; And still I thought that... | |
| John Knox - 1851 - 216 páginas
...the poet himself has thus described it : — " It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked clifls were rudely piled ; But ever and anon, between, Lay...honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall ; And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power." The Tower consists of... | |
| 1851 - 704 páginas
...1460, when in possession of the English, it was besieged by James II., and after his death, it was "It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...rudely piled ; But, ever and anon, between Lay velvet lufts of loveliest pree And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower frrew, uckle... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall ; I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed; And still I thought that... | |
| 1853 - 618 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed, Yet was poetic impulse given By the green hill and clear blue heaven . It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffs...honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. * * ' * * From me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet's well-conned task ! Nay, Erskine,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Tet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...wall-flower grew,' And honeysuckle loved to crawl tip the low crag and ruiu'd wall. I deem'd such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round survey... | |
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