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| Joel Edson Rockwell - 1860 - 356 sider
...upon our sight. Here the fair Ellen first saw the Knight of Snowdoun. There is her island — " Where for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower." And yonder rises Benvenue. And as we sail onward by cliff, and forest, and island, and hill, we find... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1861 - 788 sider
...outrage must have been the work of several accomplices, the perpetrators were never discovered. " Where for retreat in dangerous hour Some chief had framed a rustic bower." and as the lake opens up beyond this, we obtain our first good view of the splendid mountain of Benvenue... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 sider
...rocky isle they reach, And moor their shallop on the beach. XXV. The Stranger viewed the shore around ; 'Twas all so close with copse-wood bound, Nor track nor path-way might declare That human font frequented there, Until the mountain-maiden showed A clambering unsuspected road, That winded... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 190 sider
...that descend almost to the water's edge, that it presents the actual beauiilenl of a spot " Where, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower." After sailing round the isle, the loch opens, and a good opportunity is afforded of noting the soft,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 370 sider
...rocky isle they reach, And moor their shallop on the beach. xxv. The stranger view'd the shore around ; 'Twas all so close with copsewood bound, Nor track...pathway might declare That human foot frequented there, 1 [MS. — " This gentle hand had grasp'd an oar: Yet with main strength the oars he drew."] Until... | |
| 1865 - 1136 sider
...that descend almost to the water's edge, that it presents the actual beau-ideal of a spot " Where, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower." After sailing round the isle, the loch opens, and a good opportunity is afforded of noting the soft,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 sider
...rocky isle they reach, And moor their shallop on the beach. The stranger view'd the shore around ; 'Twas all so close with copsewood bound. Nor track...pathway might declare That human foot frequented there, Until the mountain-maiden show'd A clambering unsuspected road, That winded through the tangled screen,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 sider
...screen, open'd on a narrow green, weeping birch and willow round their long fibres swept the ground, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower. XXVI. •ua lodge of ample size, strange of structure and device ; such materials, as around l workman's... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 sider
...on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round, With their long fibres swept the ground ; Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower. XXVI. It was a lodge of ample size. But strange of structure and device ; Of such materials, as around... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 530 sider
...the wilds of Cumberland and Westmoreland. 'S THE LADY'S ISLE. THE Stranger viewed the shore around : 'Twas all so close with copse-wood bound, Nor track...pathway might declare That human foot frequented there, Until the mountain-maiden shewed A clambering unsuspected road That winded through the tangled screen,... | |
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