 Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. ' The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. ' Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed...  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 141af Walter Scott - 1811 - 295 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 974 sider
...the stormy firth to-day. ' The blackening wave is edg'd with white ; To inch and rock the sew-mews fly ; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. ' Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round ladye gay ; Then stay thee, Fair,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 972 sider
...Rosabelle. — ' Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thce in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. ' The blackening wave is edg'd with white ; To inch and rock the sew-mews fly ; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose... | |
 | 1911 - 784 sider
...mourns the lovely Rosabelle. " Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew I And, geptle ladye, deign to stay! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. "Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shrowd swathed round ladye gay; Then stay thee, Fair, in... | |
 | 1911 - 322 sider
...the banks of the Forth can well imagine the plight of the strangers :— " The black'ning waves are edged with white, To inch and rock the sea-mews fly;...fishers have heard the water-sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh." Thus Sir Walter Scott describes the coming storm on these very waters... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 sider
...and even so profuse a describer as Scott occasionally spares detail and boldly suggests his scene. " The blackening wave is edged with white. To inch and rock the sea-mews fly." Among the prose writers of modern times, the tendency is toward greater fulness of detail. Sometimes... | |
 | 1912 - 624 sider
...mourns the lovely Rosabelle. "Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! And, gentle Lady, deign to stay! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. "Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round lady gay; Then stay thee, Fair, in... | |
 | Alberta. Department of Education - 1912 - 244 sider
...gallant crew, And gentle ladye, deign to stay; Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the gloomy firth to-day." "The blackening wave is edged with...fishers have heard the Water-Sprite Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh." "Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round ladye... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1912 - 502 sider
...the lovely Rosabelle. " Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! 20 Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...blackening wave is edged with white ; To inch and rock the sea mews fly ; The fishers have heard the Water Sprite, 25 Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1914 - 256 sider
...mourns the lovely Rosabelle. 'Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. 'Last night the gifted... | |
 | Walter Barnes - 1915 - 602 sider
...mourns the lovely Rosabelle. "Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews ny ; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. Then stay... | |
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