I've wander'd o'er, Clombe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam. The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Side 94af sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 sider
...stalk for mountain-deer* Till the good Bruce to Ronald said, " St. Mary ! what a scene is herq \ I've I've traversed many a mountain-strand, Abroad and...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,... | |
| 1815 - 612 sider
...When the king first sees the barren ridge of Coolin and the black lake of Corriskin, he exclaims, " A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 sider
...my lot to tread Where safety more than pleasure led ; Thus, many a waste I've wander'd o'er, Clonibe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome,...barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er 1 happ'd to roam." No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...many a waste I 've wander'd o'er, Clombc many a crag, cross'd many a moor, Hut, by my halidome, Л scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did ray waudering footsteps press. Where'er Ibapp'd to roam.» — XIV/ No marvel thus the monarch spake;... | |
| 1852
...wandered o'er, Clombe many a crag, crossed many a moor, But, by my halidome ! A scene so rude, so wild an this ; Yet so sublime In barrenness Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where'er I happ'd to roam." And wilder, forward as we wound, Were the proud cliffs and lake profound ; Huge terraces of granite... | |
| 1839 - 756 sider
...enough to immortalize his name. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Stormy Evening, 173, by W. Turner:— " A scene so rude, so wild as this Yet so sublime in barrenness." It is indeed a sublime scene, and if the verses had been written for the picture, the author could... | |
| James Johnson - 1834 - 262 sider
...Where safety more than pleasure led ; Thus many a waste I've wander'd o'er, Clomb many a crag, cross' d many a moor, But by my Halidome, A scene so rude,...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." Notwithstanding the dreariness of the route from Blair-Athol to Inverness, I have seldom made a more... | |
| William Henry Bayley Webster - 1834 - 442 sider
...land ; And it has been my lot to tread Where safety more than pleasure led. But a scene so rude and wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where 'er I happ'd to roam." We had not a little difficulty to ascertain what the composition of the... | |
| William Henry B. Webster - 1834 - 442 sider
...land ; And it has been my lot to tread Where safety more than pleasure led. But a scene so rude and wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where 'er I happ'd to roam." We had not a little difficulty to ascertain what the composition of the... | |
| 1834 - 566 sider
...I never heard before. ' If I could have spoken at all, I should have exclaimed with the Bruce — " A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness Did ne'er my wondering footsteps press." ' By degrees the trees ceased altogether : the mosses and... | |
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