...food, And, while she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sank pleased though hungry on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was known to hum,...

...And, while she scratch'd her lover into rest, * Sank pleased though hungry on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was known to hum,...

...could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green : The plague of locust they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was known to hum,...

...efforts of imagination than his description of Scotland in the " Prophecy of Famine," beginning — " Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet, scorn 'd the lively green; No living thing whate'cr, its food, feasts there, But the Camdcon who can...

...whilst she scratched her lover uito rest, Sunk pleaded, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far a,* The eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in "russet, scorned the lively jjrceu : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For In three hours a grasshopper...

...to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my fortune to entertain. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green ; No birds, except the birds of passage flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no...

...may be proper to mention that the real heroes of this incident were both Longhope men. CHAPTER XVI. " Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green. " 'THROUGHOUT the various mosses in these islands are stillto be foundmanyremainsof...

...setting day ; Sawney as long without remorse could bawl Home's madrigals, and ditties from Fingal. . . . Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth,...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was known to hum,...

...description of the " land of brown heath and shaggy wood " is almost grotesque in its extravagance. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth clad in russet scorned the lively green, The plague of locusts they, secure, defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...

...description of the " land of brown heath and shaggy wood " is almost grotesque in its extravagance. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen. Earth clad in russet scorned the lively green, The plague of locusts they, secure, defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...