 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
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 516 pages
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all ils rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." LORD OF THE ISLES, Canto ITT. Here, again, we see the absolute necessity of scientific and entire acquaintance... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1888 - 1230 pages
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all its rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." LORD OF THE ISLES, Canto TIT Here, again, we see the absolute necessity of scientific and entire acquaintance... | |
 | English periodicals - 1889 - 922 pages
...stone, the naked precipices and black ravines, all recalled Scott's description of Coruisk : — " Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught...rocks at random thrown. Black waves, bare crags, and banka of stone." Coruisk, as Scott pictures it, with the wind whirling the eddying mists from the hill-tops... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 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,...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... | |
 | 1890 - 506 pages
...but 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, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all its rocks at random thrown. Black waves,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 pages
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all its rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." LORD OF THE ISLES, Canto III. Here, again, we see the absolute necessity of scientific and entire acquaintance... | |
 | Vernon Heath - Photographers - 1892 - 396 pages
...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.' " " LORD OF THE ISLES," Canto III., 12, 13, 14. On returning to Sligachan after descending the hill,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencrco, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetat1ve power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 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...were here denied The summer sun, the spring's sweet dcv/, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. And wilder, forward as they wound,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 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...were here denied The summer sun, the spring's sweet de-v, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. And wilder, forward as they wound,... | |
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