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 Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Page 17by Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still...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 made.... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. " Onwaid, amid tiie copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such bieadlh of biim. As served the wild duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...heaven's delicious hlue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, AfIording scarce such hreadth of hrim, As served the wild-duck's hrood to swim ; Lost for a space,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a feiry dream. XIII. Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the...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 made.... | |
| James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...wide and varied expanse to which it stretches out as we proceed. Mr. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Canto I. St. 13. " Advancing by the side of the lake, we pass along a road,... | |
| Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - 1821 - 378 pages
...little promise of that majestic width it soon assumes, being, as Sir W. Scott has well described it, ' " A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The road passes along the side of the lake, cut out with immense labour,... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 222 pages
...by a contracted body of water which stretches out as you proceed. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Benan " heaves high his forehead bare" above the mountains of the Trosachs.... | |
| J. Coad - 1826 - 264 pages
...point of Knock -ross, and part of the expanded water, are seen from this path to great advantage. " Onward amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording just such breadth of brim As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. ***** Yet broader floods extending... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...heaven's delicious blue , So wond'rous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still...deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served die wild-duck's brood to swim. l<*l for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing,... | |
| William W. Campbell - 1831 - 284 pages
...said to be the meaning of its Indian name. The scenery from many points is very picturesque and wild. "Tall rocks and tufted knolls, their face Could on the dark blue mirror trace." And it has not been unaptly compared to the romantic lakes, for which Scotland is so much celebrated. At... | |
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