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 - 1888 - 682 pàgines
...perchance to fall.' XXX. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er sur\^-ed. 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 now, The morning... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 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...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 - 1887 - 664 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 stow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning... | |
| John Ruskin - 1888 - 510 pàgines
...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...streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the heigh^ Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves... | |
| William Pryor Letchworth - 1889 - 478 pàgines
...plain below, 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...them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder cloud." This mansion, some three hundred years ago, was the seat of the Carmichaels, a family... | |
| William Pryor Letchworth - 1889 - 458 pàgines
...description in Marmion : " Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. 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 - 1889 - 336 pàgines
...perchance to fall.' XXX. Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, 600 For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow 605 With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1890 - 352 pàgines
...with the martial show That peopled nil the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And in;irk the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ;...sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tingc-d them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dntky grandeur clothed... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 pàgines
...rise, perchance to fall." 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...wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant cily glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pàgines
...a series of poetic touches, embedded in a comprehensive sketch, with good order in the particulars. When sated with the martial show That peopled all...plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And murk the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For, on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That... | |
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