| Evenings - 1860 - 386 sider
...EDINBURGH FEOM BLACKFORD HILL. STILL on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...proud. Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such iiusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...rise, perchance to fall."— Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; For on tfce smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 sider
...Borthwick. t Each of these fcudal ensigns intimated the different rank of those entitled to display them.' When, sated with the martial show That peopled all...Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandenr clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose... | |
| 1865 - 396 sider
...Marmion's site, where " Still on the spot lord Mannion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. 'When sated with the martial show, That peopled all...mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; " But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays ; And as each heathy top they... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 sider
...entitled to display them. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay 41, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the heigbt, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 sider
...the spot Lord Marmion stay'i For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial sho» That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye...With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, hnge a slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed. And tinged them with a... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 sider
...the prospect towards Edinburgh, from the top of Blackford, is a series of poetic touches : — P " When sated with the martial show That peopled all...it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendor red ; For, on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning... | |
| Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 sider
...ensigns intimated the different rank of those entitled to display them. When sated with the martial shoJ That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it ji For on the smoke-wreaths, huge J slow, And mark the distant ciiy glow With gloomy splendour red... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 sider
...the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed, When, sated with the martial allow. That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye...distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smokcwreaths, huge, and slow, That round her sable turrets (low, The morning beams w«re Hied, And... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 sider
...perchance to fall." XXX. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant ciiy glow With gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable... | |
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