gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the... The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Side 17af Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| John T. Reid - 1878 - 284 sider
...A narrow inlet, still and deep — Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim Lost for a space, through thickets veering....Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as ihe hunter stray 'd. Still broader sweep its channels made.... | |
| John T. Reid - 1878 - 290 sider
...heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. "Onwatd, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and...Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when agam appearing... | |
| A. Tiffany Norton - 1879 - 228 sider
...to three miles wide. High hills surround it, and so clear and deep is the water that it is said, " Tall rocks and tufted knolls, their face Could on the dark blue mirror trace." The hand of civilization had as yet made but little trace of its presence in this spot, but, as Campbell... | |
| 1880 - 594 sider
...hands? (From the Rev. Barnard Smith' s Arithmetic.) JUNIUS. (20) Parse the words in italics : — " Onward amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still...of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim." (21) How far may any of our existing institutions be traced up to Saxon times ? A. SEED. (22) " He... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 330 sider
...heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader...Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And further as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels made.... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 sider
...summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. 5. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still...Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still...Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim, Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,... | |
| William W. Campbell - 1880 - 330 sider
...said to be the meaning of its Indian name. The scenery from many points is very picturesque and wild: "Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark blue mirror trace." And it has not been unaptly compared to the romantic lakes for which Scotland is so much celebrated. At... | |
| Mountford John B. Baddeley - 1881 - 382 sider
...1,500 feet on the north. The pier and its surroundings are the very essence of rustic beauty : — " A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." So abruptly do the purple crags rise out of the water, and so closely do... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 sider
...blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. 13. Onward, amid the cop*e 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording...space, through thickets veering, But broader when agam appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther... | |
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