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... Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland - Page 159by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1856 - 659 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...comrades of the day ; Yet often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it sliow'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...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 many a rocky... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...comrades of the day ; Yet often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...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 many a rocky... | |
| 1811 - 872 pages
...following passages are decidedly superior to any thing in -that style he had before produced. " The 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... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...passages are decidedly superior to any thing in that style he had before produced. " The western 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 beam could glow Within the dark ravines... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it showed. XI. The western waves of ehhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was hathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting heam conld glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1899 - 318 pages
...most beautiful descriptions in the Lady of the Lake : — " The western waves 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 —... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...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 many a rocky... | |
| James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...can be more literally correct or poetically beautiful: — " The western waves of ebhing day Waved o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day RolTd 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... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...most beautiful descriptions in the Lady of the Lake : — " The western waves 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-—... | |
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