Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore... Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England - Side 90af Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1830Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 sider
...did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam."— No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
| 1815 - 1008 sider
...quarter, and which he has done in'a singularly powerful and striking manner. Barely human eye has known Л scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of torren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter 'd way Through... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1815 - 466 sider
...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." — XIV. No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A- scene so stern as...that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way And that each naked precipice,... | |
| 1815 - 612 sider
...my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam."— -^ No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. * • ». * * * # here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor... | |
| Walter Scott - 1815 - 498 sider
...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." — XIV. No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...dread lake,' With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
| 1850 - 938 sider
...wood-craft well; and hill-craft and river-craft ; yet in his fine picture of Coriskin and Coolin, " The wildest glen but this can show Some touch of nature's genial glow : On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruachan Ben... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 338 sider
...footsteps press, Where'er I happed to roam." — XIV. No marvel thns the Monarch spake ; For rarely hnman eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of harren stone. Seems that primeval earthqnake's sway Hath rent a strange and shattered way Throngh the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 314 sider
...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." — XIV. No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...dread lake, • With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 410 sider
...wandering footsteps press, • Where'er I happ'd to roam."— XIV. No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 290 sider
...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." — XIV. No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as...that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
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