 I've wander'd o'er, Clombe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam.  The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lord of the isles - Page 98by Sir Walter Scott - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...many a waste I've wander'd o'er, Clombe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness,...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam."— No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread lake,... | |
 | 1815 - 612 pages
...king first sees the barren ridge of Coolin and the black lake of Corriskin, he exclaims, " A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness,...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam."— -^ No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern as that dread... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 858 pages
...a waste I've wander'd o'er, Clonibe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press, Where'er 1 happ'd to roam." No marvel thus the Monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...a waste I 've wander'd o'er, Clombc many a crag, cross'd many a moor, Hut, by my halidome, Л scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did ray waudering footsteps press. Where'er Ibapp'd to roam.» — XIV/ No marvel thus the monarch spake;... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...a waste I 've wander'd o'er, Clombe many a crag, cross'd many a moor, But, by my halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness,...my wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam.n — XIV. No marvel thus the monarch spake ; For rarely human eye has known A scene so stern... | |
 | 1852
...wandered o'er, Clombe many a crag, crossed many a moor, But, by my halidome ! A scene so rude, so wild an this ; Yet so sublime In barrenness Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where'er I happ'd to roam." And wilder, forward as we wound, Were the proud cliffs and lake profound ; Huge terraces of granite... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...many a waste I've wander'd o'er, Clomb many a crag, cross' d many a moor, But by my Halidome, A scene so rude, so wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness,...wandering footsteps press, Where'er I happ'd to roam." Notwithstanding the dreariness of the route from Blair-Athol to Inverness, I have seldom made a more... | |
 | William Henry Bayley Webster - Gravity - 1834 - 442 pages
...land ; And it has been my lot to tread Where safety more than pleasure led. But a scene so rude and wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where 'er I happ'd to roam." We had not a little difficulty to ascertain what the composition of the... | |
 | William Henry B. Webster - 1834 - 442 pages
...land ; And it has been my lot to tread Where safety more than pleasure led. But a scene so rude and wild as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne'er did my wandering footsteps press Where 'er I happ'd to roam." We had not a little difficulty to ascertain what the composition of the... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1852 - 688 pages
...a waste 1're wandered o'er, Clombe many a crag, crossed many u moor, But, by my halidome ! A scene so rude, so wild as this ; Yet so sublime in barrenness...wandering footsteps press Where'er I happ'd to roam." And wilder, forward as we wound, Were the proud cliffs and lake profound ; Huge terraces of granite... | |
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