 When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Pągina 217per Walter Scott - 1857Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pągines
...Again: there is hardly any form, only smoke and color, in his celebrated description of Edinburgh: " The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendor red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pągines
...Again : there is hardly any form, only smoke and color, in his celebrated description of Edinburgh : " The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendor red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pągines
...EDINBURGH FEOM BLACKFORD HILL. STILL on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...proud. Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such iiusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down,... | |
 | 1865 - 396 pągines
...Marmion's site, where " Still on the spot lord Mannion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. 'When sated with the martial show, That peopled all...mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; " But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays ; And as each heathy top they... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pągines
...entitled to display them. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay 41, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the heigbt, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 pągines
...entitled to display them. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay " For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge ani slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pągines
...the spot Lord Marmion stay'i For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial sho» That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye...With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, hnge a slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed. And tinged them with a... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pągines
...the prospect towards Edinburgh, from the top of Blackford, is a series of poetic touches : — P " When sated with the martial show That peopled all...it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendor red ; For, on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pągines
...ensigns intimated the different rank of those entitled to display them. When sated with the martial shoJ That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it ji For on the smoke-wreaths, huge J slow, And mark the distant ciiy glow With gloomy splendour red... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pągines
...the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed, When, sated with the martial allow. That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye...distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smokcwreaths, huge, and slow, That round her sable turrets (low, The morning beams w«re Hied, And... | |
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