The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged 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,... The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Página 34por Walter Scott - 1819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Marcius Willson - 1881 - 492 páginas
...moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. 16. " The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1881 - 488 páginas
...moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed tb,e willow wreaths to stone. 16. " The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and... | |
| Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 páginas
...foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The cloisters are much admired for the chasteness and beauty of the carving. The cloister door is that... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 páginas
...oriel shore Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliated tracery combined; Thou wou 1 1 Ut have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight...knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work waa done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The scene of Scott's novel of " The Monastery "... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. Canto VI. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1881 - 272 páginas
...interlaced by tracery of such delicacy that it has been compared to an imitation of wicker work : — " Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freaking knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, t And changed the willow wruaths... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| William Stevenson - 1882 - 354 páginas
...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...framed a spell, when the work was done. And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.'' Not far from "Scott's stone" lies an old-fashioned slab which covers the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 páginas
...t Corbells, the projections from which the arches spring, usually cut in a fantastic face, or mask. Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed...wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his... | |
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