 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 - Pàgina 217per Walter Scott - 1857Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pàgines
...fall." — XXX. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene lie ne'er surveyed, Wben, Bated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below,...distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke- wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 446 pàgines
...perchance to fall." — XXX. fTILL on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-clou Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pàgines
...When sated with the martial showThat peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er itgc, e lamp with twofold silver chain Is fasten 'd to an...augel'i feet. 348 CHKISTABEL. The silver lamp bams turret's flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks... | |
 | Anna Deborah Richardson - 1877 - 340 pàgines
...an acquaintance with forbidden literature, when, in a school essay, she quoted Scott's lines : — "And tinged them with a lustre proud Like that which streaks a thunder cloud." If Scott's poems were tabooed, it may be imagined that all novels were strictly prohibited... | |
 | William Hutton - 1878 - 408 pàgines
...should love this city on the hills? Is it to be wondered at, that Scott should write of it, — '' 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 - 1879 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 pàgines
...perchance to fall.' XXX. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er k go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1880 - 538 pàgines
...with a chief1! delight," — And stiH upon the spot he stay'd, *' For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below. The wandering ere could o'er h go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendor red ; For on the smoke-wreaihs,... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pàgines
...noble chord throughout' Still on the spot Lord'Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er eurvev'd, When sated with the martial show That peopled all...And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which strikes a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 780 pàgines
...perchance to fall." XXX. 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...smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets (low, The morning brains were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud , Like that which streaks a... | |
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