 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...  The Living Age ... - Page 131851Full view - About this book
 | 1894
...intellectual friends. As many people know, Scott has the following among other lines on Loch Coruisk : For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of atone, As if were here denied The summer Bun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - Africa - 1895
...horizon, is the desert of sand, yellow, barren, glistening with the heat of the Egyptian sun. Around, nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, nor aught of vegetative power the weary eye may ken ; the sands lie everywhere, smothering all life. But wonderful is the power of Nile water. With a stream... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - Africa - 1895
...horizon, is the desert of sand, yellow, barren, glistening with the heat of the Egyptian sun. Around, nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, nor aught of vegetative power the weary eye may ken ; the sands lie everywhere, smothering all life. But wonderful is the power of Nile water. With a stream... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - Artists - 1897 - 636 pages
...around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, NAPOLEON LE PETIT. 137 Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken....with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. In the upheaved waves and pinnacles of rock Turner revels, as he does in the mist that rolls up the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe,2 And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...here denied The summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, 1MS. — "Dark banks." „ ,. , , ( deers have buds ) . 1 MS. — " And J , , ... f- in deep Glencoe."... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe,2 And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...here denied The summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, IMS. — " Dark banks." , ( deers have buds ) . ._,. 1 MS. — " And 1. , , ,, [ 1n deep Glenooe."... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 582 pages
...bud in deep Glencroe, 390 And copse on Cruchan-Ben; But here, — above, around, below, Ou mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...crags, and banks of stone, As if were here denied 199 The summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1900
...and might be fancifully compared to a sheet of water, which, while it rushed whitening and foaming Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught...crags, and banks of stone, As if were here denied The summer's sun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1900 - 582 pages
...— above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, KTor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken....crags, and banks of stone, As if were here denied 299 The summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side.... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1900 - 139 pages
...headlong in some night of fear, When yell'd the wolf and fled the deer, Loose crags had toppled o'er. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare...banks of stone, As if were here denied The summer sun, tl e spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side. 1 Starr King.... | |
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