 | Andrew Carnegie - 1883 - 366 pages
...obstructed by the hedges and walls ; upon the top of the coach the eye wanders far and wide, " O'er deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between." Rural England. 39 Everthing of rural England is seen, and how exquisitely beautiful it all is, this... | |
 | Curtis Guild - 1884 - 578 pages
...Roderic Dhu's reply to James : — " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves hetween ; Those fertile fields, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael." The outer... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 582 pages
...answer'd with disdainful smile,— "Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures With gentle slopes and groves between:— green, These fertile plains, that soften'd vale. Were once... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 296 pages
...answer'd with disdainful smile, — " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and groves between : — These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our... | |
 | W. Harlan Cord - 1885 - 564 pages
...the Lake " says Roderick Dhu : " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the South and East, where lay, Extended in...pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between; Whose fertile fields, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael." Rob Roy is said to... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...with disdainful smile,— 135 'Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, found them alive; and truly, alive was all: for now,...what for want of bread ai;-! water, and by reason 140 With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the... | |
 | Walter Scott, William Sharp - 1886 - 368 pages
...answer'd with disdainful smile — "Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and groves between : — These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1886 - 372 pages
...I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in succession guy, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle...and groves between :—» These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our... | |
 | Francis Henry Buffum - 1886 - 154 pages
...hand the black cinders of war the traveller now finds all the arts and industries of peace. He finds " Deep waving fields and pastures green With gentle slopes and groves between." He finds a rich agricultural region that will compare favorably with any east of the Alleghanies. And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 pages
...answered with disdainful smile : ' Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between : — Belong the target and claymore ! I give you shelter in my breast, Your own good blades 'must... | |
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These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael : The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ! See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we... 
