 With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height,...  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Page 51by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town I But northward far with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...to recall — give a glowing yet accurate picture of the outline of this great thoroughfare : — ' Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...massy, close and high — Mine own romantic town! ' It has been related, though we cannot give the anecdote authoritatively, that when Francis Jeffrey... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 394 pages
...dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope adown, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and...massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town." But even in this outburst dedicated to his " own romantic town," his fancy passes instinctively to the... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 332 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope adown, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, 'Mine own romantic... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud, Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw; Here Preston-Bay, and Berwick-Law;... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud. Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such iiusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle...massy, close and high, — Mine own romantic town I But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays; And as each heathy top they... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1860 - 642 pages
...and there's Blackford Hill, where Sir Walter says Manuion stood and saw "Such dusky grandeur clothe the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state,...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! And that's Liberton, where Mr. Butler, in the Heart of Mid Lothian, was Dominie. And yonder's Burdie... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandenr clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its...mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst. Yonder the shores of Fife you saw; Here Preston-Bay, and Berwick-... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 452 pages
...shown, too, in Turner ; so, too, are the lesser beauties of those heroic and passionate lines : — "Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !" Nor is Loch Achray, with its sheet of living gold, its empurpled islands and grand sentinel mountains,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 450 pages
...shown, too, in Turner ; so, too, are the lesser beauties of those heroic and passionate lines : — " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town !" Nor is Loch Achray, with its sheet of living gold, its empurpled islands and grand sentinel mountains,... | |
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