 gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing. Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the...  The Illustrated Magazine - Page 1291853Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...narrow inlet still and deep, n • • Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter stray'd, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...The scenery of a feiry dream. XIII. Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter stray'd, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 pages
...narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's hrood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering,...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And further as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...peep, A narrow islet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim, Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark- blue mirror trace; And farther on the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channel... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing. Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace; And farther as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...peep A Harrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim,1 As served the wild duck's on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter stray'd, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | James Grant - 1841 - 330 pages
...beauties of a walk of two miles in extent, parallel with the famed Derwent, varying at every turn, ' Lost for a space through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,' passing through its rugged course, beneath luxuriant grown plantations, where vistas are planted with... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 pages
...seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing;, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter strayed, Still broader sweep its channels... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...peep A narrow inlet, still ami deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets...appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Cold on the dark-blue mirror trace ; And farther as the hunter stray'd, Still broader sweeps the channel... | |
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