 Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling; And in its park, in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay! The wild buck bells from ferny brake,...  Marmion - Side 33af sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Gibbon - 1877 - 328 sider
...Katherine's safety was of more importance to him than that of all the world beside. CHAPTER II. LINLITHGOW. " Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling,...linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck-bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure take... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 sider
...A tale, which chronicles of old In Scottish story have enrolled : — Sir rLuub Iftnbtsag's Calf. " Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling,...And in its park, in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnets tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells* from ferny brake, The coot dives... | |
 | Charles Roger (of Dundee.) - 1877 - 92 sider
...devised and directed the massacre of their ancestors. The same admirable writer, in "Marmion," says: — "Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling...Scotland, far beyond compare, Linlithgow is excelling." It was built by Edward I. of England; taken and demolished by the Bruce in 1307 ; rebuilt by the English... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 sider
...Scottish story have enrolled: — ' /» Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling." SDatriD " OF all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling,...in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, Cale. How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on... | |
 | Mary Anna Paull - 1878 - 416 sider
...roamed beneath the massive and magnificent old ruin of Linlithgow Palace where that princess was born. " Of all the palaces so fair Built for the royal dwelling,...Scotland far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling." Annie repeated Scott's lines, and then remarked to her husband what a striking background the unflinching... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1878 - 880 sider
...owing to its superior advantages as a residence thus mentioned ' in Marmion — " Of all the palaeos so fair Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare, Linlithgow is excelling " The building is quadrangular and externally rather heavy from the want of windows, but the interior... | |
 | George Waldie - 1879 - 132 sider
...country stood many hundred feet lower than it does at present. SIR DAVID LINDESAY'S TALE. From Marmion. " Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling,...linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild-buck bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure... | |
 | Charles Gibbon - 1880 - 412 sider
...safety was of more importance to Lim than that of all the world beside. CHAPTER XVII. LINLITHGOW. " Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling,...merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! Tho wild buck-bells from ferny brake, Tho coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - 1879 - 250 sider
...beautifully situated on a grassy terrace above the loch, as to justify the glowing lines of Scott : ' Of all the palaces so fair Built for the royal dwelling...compare Linlithgow is excelling. And in its park in genial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune ! How blythe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1879 - 396 sider
...burdensome frae the divertin' poo'r which beauty gies to the outward world! North. As Sir Walter sings — " In jovial June How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! COMPARISON BETWEEN, AND POETRY. 3 The wild buck bells from fenny brake, The coot dives merry on the... | |
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