 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...  LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. - Side 109af REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 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...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 468 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...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
 | 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...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still.... | |
 | 1815 - 612 sider
...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 - 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 that...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
 | 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...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
 | 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...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 sider
...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 as that...primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and... | |
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