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" 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, Round... "
The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry - Page 23
by Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 403 pages
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The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as...
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The Lady of the Lake;: A Poem

Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...scenes it show'd. X. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1811 - 868 pages
...wares of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; ., Each purple peak, each flinty »pire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting...below. Where twined the path, in shadow hid. Round many 8 rocky pyramid. Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Hound many an insulated...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 9

1811 - 872 pages
...wettern waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty ipire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Witllin the dark ravines below, ., Where twined the path, in shadow bid. Round many a rocky pyramid,...
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Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire:: made chiefly for the purpose of ...

Ebenezer Rhodes - 1899 - 318 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below — Where turn'd the path, in shadows hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-spHnter'd...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 4

Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...Was hathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting heam conld glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where twined the path, in shadow hid', Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting ahruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native hulwarks...
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Duncan's Itinerary of Scotland: With the Principal Roads to London, Copious ...

James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...poetically beautiful: — " The western waves of ebhing day Waved o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. J?ut not a setting beam could glow, Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow...
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An autumn near the Rhine; or, Sketches of courts, society, scenery etc. in ...

Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd on the glen their level ray ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twin'd the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Round many an insulated mass, The native...
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Peak Scenery ; Or, The Derbyshire Tourist

Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below — Where turn'd the path, in shadows hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, ", Shooting abruptly from the dell Its...
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Peak scenery; or, Excursions in Derbyshire

Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below-— Where turn'd the path, in shadows hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, • Shooting abruptly from the dell Its...
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