The lady of the lake. 1st canto |
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Aberfoyle Achray alludes allusion ancient Annotated Poems antlers apposition Ben-an Benvenue birch bold bower brake breath bugle called Canto chase clanging copsewood couch crest dark deemster deer derived diminutive dogs dream Ellen's ENGLISH AUTHORS Faerie Queene falchion feather formerly French Gaelic gallant glen grace Greek guest harp hazel hazel shade heath hence Highland hoar horn hounds hunter huntsman lady lake light Loch Achray Loch Earn Loch Katrine Lycidas maid means metonymy middle ages Minstrel mountain Nabal Naiad night nominative absolute noun O. E. word o'er onomatopoiea past participle Perthshire poet prayer pron rhymes ringlet rocks round Scotland sense Shakespeare shallop shewed silvan Sir Walter Scott skiff sleep Snowdoun song sound spell Spenser stag steed Stranger streamers sword toil tree Twere Vennachar verb viewless WALTER SCOTT wander warrior wave whence wild wind Woe worth wood wych elm
Passatges populars
Pàgina 22 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, 190 Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...
Pàgina 31 - ... light, And mountains that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...
Pàgina 37 - And seldom was a snood amid Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind...
Pàgina 20 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey!
Pàgina 29 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel...
Pàgina 56 - Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more : Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Pàgina 25 - Boon Nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower...
Pàgina 7 - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
Pàgina 27 - 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 dark-blue mirror trace; And farther as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels made.
Pàgina 40 - On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth ; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or headlong ire.