 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 Benmore...  Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England - Side 90af Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1830Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 sider
...Ne'er 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 dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...ray waudering footsteps press. Where'er Ibapp'd to roam.» — XIV/ 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. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd wav Through the rude bosom... | |
 | 1866 - 728 sider
...grandeur, and reminding the visitor of Walter Scott's lines, — "-Rarely human eye has known A scene eo stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone, That sees grim Coolin rise, and hears Corrisken roar." The term barren is well applied, for here vegetation... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 sider
...miles up the loch at the laird's house. It was now late, and to stay until a messenger had gone and * ' Rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stoue. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Tbrough the rude... | |
 | 1837 - 236 sider
...Robert Bruce encountered Cormac Doil. Sir Walter Scott thus faithfully describes the scenery : — " The wildest glen but this can show Some touch of nature's genial glow. On high Ben-more green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencoe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 608 sider
...one or two spots of islets in the loch which seem to bear juniper, or some such low bushy shrub. * ' Rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, " Returned from our extraordinary walk, and went on board. During dinner, onr vessel quitted Loch Scavig,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...wandering footstep« ргея, Where'er I happed to roam." — XIV. 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. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shattered wayThrough the rude bosom of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 sider
...kind; the eye rested on nothing but brown and naked crags,* and the rocks on which we walked by * ' Rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 428 sider
...rested on nothing but brown and naked crags,* and the rocks on which we walked by * ' Rarely human eve has known A scene so stern as that dread lake, With its dark ledge of barren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shattered way Through the rude bosom... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1840 - 286 sider
...did my 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 dread lake, With its dark ledge1 of harren stone. Seems that primeval earthquake's sway Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way... | |
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