| John Marius Wilson - 1860 - 692 páginas
...short о depicting it : — " The western waves of ebbing day Koll'd o'er the glen their levet say ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire. Was bathed In floods of living flre. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, W here twined the path, in shadow... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 páginas
...written for Franconia : — The western wnvcs of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Kach purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,... | |
| Cuthbert Bede - 1863 - 458 páginas
...leave on the mind of the reader who had not seen the Trosachs would be gathered from the lines — Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1863 - 460 páginas
...leave on the mind of the reader who had not seen the Trosachs would be gathered from the lines — Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 370 páginas
...were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid,... | |
| William Bigg - 1865 - 184 páginas
...quote a few masterly touches : The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire, But not a setting beam could glow Within its dark ravines below, Where turned the paths in shadow hid... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 páginas
...LADY OF THE LAKE. THE TEOSACHS. The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 páginas
...were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 páginas
...Scott cannot even get through a description of Highland scenery without help from the idea : — " Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire." Take away from Scott's romances the word and idea turret, and see how much you would lose. Suppose,... | |
| Alexander Murray (publisher.) - 1866 - 468 páginas
...transcribe such is irresistible:— ' The western waves of ebbing day Koll'd o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid... | |
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