 The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below...  The Spell of Scotland - Side 294af Keith Clark - 1916 - 345 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1847 - 558 sider
...next feasted their eyes upon "Kllen's Isle," of which the same immortal spirit of song says: — llut not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, Where twuied the path, in shadow hid, Hound many a rocky pyramid, -Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 sider
...scatter'd Southron fled before.* THE TRO8ACHS AND LOCH KATRINE. The western waves of ebbing day RolTd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 276 sider
...the Scottish Lion bore, And still the scatter'd Southron fled before.* THE TRO8ACH8 AND LOCH KATRINE. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen...; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed iu floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 sider
...so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. The western waves of ebhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. Hut not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,... | |
 | Elzéar Blaze, Herbert Byng Hall - 1850 - 514 sider
...fast losing themselves in the shades of coming night ; and " The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak —...flinty spire Was bathed in floods of living fire." When arrived at Killin, however, we were still, as already explained, some fourteen or fifteen miles... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1851 - 570 sider
...the lofty Vigneniale, the highest mountain in France : The western rays of ebbing day Rolled o'er ihe glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravme below. It appears to me to be almost impossible for a man to roam alone amidst mountain solitudes,... | |
 | 1851 - 704 sider
...is given by Sir Walter Scott, in the Lady of the Lake :— * The western waves of ebbing day Boll'd o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each...spire, Was bathed In floods of living fire. But not a Kiting beam could glow Within the dark ravinei below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Bound many... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 sider
...so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it showed. The western waves of ebbing* day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly... | |
 | Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - 386 sider
...life and romance. " The silver light, with quivering glance, Play'd on the water's clear expanse ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. It is a wild and strange retreat, As ever was trod by outlaw's feet." The following lines by WILLIS... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1853 - 404 sider
...horseman rode alont. Then throngh the dell his horn resonnds, From vain pnrsnit to call the honnds. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way. DESIGNED RY STANZA. JOHN GILRERT. BIRKET FOSTER. BIRKET FOSTER. BIRKET FOsTER. BIRKET FOSTER. BIRKET... | |
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