| 1847 - 112 pages
...The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world, " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream;" he beholds trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." T^e scenery at the east end of Loehkatrine, where the lake narrows, like a placid river, under the... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...polished. The romantic rocks of Cheddar flanking the chain of the Mendip Hills in Somersetshire, the heights on each side of the Avon at Clifton, the picturesque...They have either arisen from irregular beds of sand und clay deposited with the limestone, and subsequently washed away by the agency of water, or from... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breath of brim,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's .). /r— Unless he climb, with footing... | |
| Edward William Harcourt - 1851 - 250 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF MADEIRA. *' The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." WALTER SCOTT. Approach to Madeira. — Mount Church. — Visit boat. — Beach. — Funchal. — Prazas.—... | |
| Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...be exaggerated — at least, upon a first visit it does not seem so ; and one is ready to exclaim, " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream !" Here again, in the heart of the gorge, our Gael exclaimed " There is Beal-an-Duine, where the gallant... | |
| Anna Maria Collins - 1853 - 386 pages
...toward "Wolf-Gap." 4 nphr 5. " The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue, So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." IT was near the middle of the month of May. The little pale pink and blue blossoms were just beginning... | |
| Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 412 pages
...sight-seekers below. The scene is closed by a view of the Trosachs, (Troschen, bristled territory,) which is " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Here we found an excellent inn, much resorted to during the summer months by tourists, and persons... | |
| Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 418 pages
...sight-seekers below. The scene is closed by a view of the Trosachs, (Troschen, bristled territory,) which is " So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." Here we found an excellent inn, much resorted to during the summer months by tourists, and persons... | |
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