| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 sider
...glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; L'IU the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread ; What though... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1830 - 510 sider
...July, Sept. 7£. Panicle of few flowers, lax. Flowers drooping. Whole plant slender and graceful : " E'en the slight Hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." lanceolate subpetiolate those of the stem linear-lanceolate, panicles spreading, calycine segments... | |
| 1832 - 206 sider
...SCOTT. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. WHAT though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er...Hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : — " For me," she stooped, and looking round, Plucked a blue Hare-bell from the ground ; 131 " For... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1832 - 448 sider
...and glens of Scotland, and has a soft and elastic scape. Thus Scott says of the Lady of the Lake ; " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...hare-bell raised its head Elastic, from her airy tread." The flower which we term the hare-bell is the Campanula rotundifolia ; this is very common near water-falls,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 sider
...pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'ei from the heath-flower dashed the dew; F.'en the alight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread...tongue,— Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear. The listener held his breath to hear XIX. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid, Her satin snood, her... | |
| William Baxter - 1834 - 348 sider
...primrose ; nor ' The azur'd hare-bell like thy veins.' " SCOTT also describes it as slight and elastic : ' A foot more light, a step more true, ' Ne'er from...hare-bell raised its head, ' Elastic from her airy tread.' — Lady of the Lake, Canto i. " Again, ' For me, — she stoop'd and, looking round, ' Pluck'da blue... | |
| 1834 - 340 sider
...glimpses of a breast of snow. What, though no rule of courtly grace To measur'd mood had train'd her pace ; A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. What, though... | |
| Charles Caldwell - 1834 - 140 sider
...afford reason to have said of them, what the poet of Abbottsford said of his Ellen Douglass. — ' A foot more light, a step more true, ' Ne'er from the heath-flower brushed the dew, ' E'en the slight hare-bell reared its head, ' Elastic from her airy tread.' In truth,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 sider
...glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measur'd mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell rais'd its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1837 - 470 sider
...England and Scotland, in which countries this plant abounds; thus Scott says of his Lady of the Lake, "A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower brush'd the dew." In the Highlands of Scotland, the poor make use of the heath to thatch the roofs... | |
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