 But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...  Littell's Living Age - Page 131851Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - Scotland - 1883 - 240 pages
...deep Glencoe, And copse in Cruchan-Ben : But here — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, No tree nor shrub, nor plant nor flower, Nor aught of...As if were here denied The summer sun, the spring's deep dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain side. — Canto iii. 14. Lech Coruisk... | |
 | Charles Slegg Ward - 1883 - 234 pages
...Wherever the southwest winds sweep the surface of the ground, we may almost apply Scott's words : " Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken." Not that, as in the case of the famous Hebridean isle to which the above lines refer, the conditions... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 pages
...heath-bells' bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Bcn ; But hero, — above, around, below, On mountain of the confusion ought of vegetative i>ow(¡r, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks ut random thrown. Black waves,... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencoe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. And wilder, forward as they wound, Were the proud cliffs and lake profound, Huge terraces of granite... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here,— above, around, below, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught...with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. And wilder, forward as they wound, Were the proud cliffs and lake profound. Huge terraces of granite... | |
 | Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Alexander Wilson - New Zealand - 1884 - 430 pages
...Isles "— Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power The weary eye iray ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves,...dew That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain side. Such is " The Remarkables " — a waste of weary jagged precipices frowning down upon... | |
 | George Conroy (bp. of Ardagh.) - Sermons, English - 1884 - 498 pages
...originally upheaved the island itself. • " But here, above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, No tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught...weary eye may ken ; For all is rocks at random thrown, Bleak waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." The ground was covered with rocks, not scattered and... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 218 pages
...this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken." In the olden times, before the Highlanders became civilised, many barbarous and cruel deeds were done... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 582 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben; But here,—above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. of stone. As if were here denied The summer sun, the spring's sweet That clothe with many a varied... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 270 pages
...heath-bell bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. -e. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone, As if were here... | |
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