 | 1836 - 600 pages
...soothing recollections fail; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange ; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...reminiscences are gone : Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange — Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry ; And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streak'd with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | 1828 - 472 pages
...reminiscences are gone ; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strangeSterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt the...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry; And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | Andrew Steedman - 1895 - 402 pages
...on the abyss below. " Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild. grotesque, and strange ; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry ; And ridges, by the torrants worn, Thinly streak'd with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 pages
...soothing recollections fail; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque and strange; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn. Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...Such soothing recollections fail; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...soothing recollections fail ; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange ; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...soothing recollections fail; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange ; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite, bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - 1837 - 386 pages
...soothing recollections fail ; Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange ; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt...clear blue sky Their ribs of granite bare and dry, And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature's savage... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 pages
...steep, That hound ahrupt the valley deep, Heaving to the clear, hlue, sky Their ribs of granite, hare and dry." Half crazy with delight, and never dreaming...were yet in store, every one instantly affected to recognize some landmark with which he was familiar; and whilst many actually talked themselves into... | |
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Soon we raise the eye to range O'er prospects wild, grotesque, and strange; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt the valley deep, Heaving to the clear blue sky Their ribs of granite bare and dry... 
