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 enchanted land. Aeneidea, Or, Critical, Exegetical, and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis ... - Page 42by James Henry - 1873Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun. One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length far winding... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...projecting precipice. The hroom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One hurnished sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay heneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...Firth the eye might note, Whose islands on its bosom float, Like emeralds chasM in gold." Marmion. " And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him roll'd; In all her length far winding... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled . In all her length far winding lay, With... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won. Where, gleaming with the setting sun, Dne burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Lock-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far-winding lay, With... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...projecting precipice. (4) The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting suu, One burnish 'd sheet of living gold. Loch Katrine Iny beneath him roll'd. In all her length far... | |
| James Johnson - 1831 - 326 pages
...the tumultuous tide of impressions, half of which we can neither receive, dispose of, nor retain ! " And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, The ocean lay beneath him rolled ; In all its length far winding lay, With promontory,... | |
| James Johnson - 1831 - 312 pages
...the tumultuous tide of impressions, half of which we can neither receive, dispose of, nor retain ! " And thus an airy point he won. Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, The ocean lay beneath him rolled ; In all its length far winding lay, With promontory,... | |
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