 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
 | Elzéar Blaze, Herbert Byng Hall - Hunting dogs - 1850 - 205 pages
...gained in scenes of wildness, where the hand of man intrudeth not, as you wander — " On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken." Previous to leaving Skye, we may add, that there are abundant small lakes, formed from the arms of... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - Hunting - 1850 - 264 pages
...gained in scenes of wildness, where the hand of maii intrudeth not, as you wander— " On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken." Previous to leaving Skye, we may add, that there are abundant small lakes, formed from the arms of... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee - Salt - 1850 - 358 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." During the early part of the day, the weather was pleasant, with passing clouds ; but when unobscured,... | |
 | England - 1850
...heath-bells bnd in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruachan Ben ; * But here, above, around, below, In mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor anght of vegetative power The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random strewn, Black waves, bare... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee - Salt - 1850 - 358 pages
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, If or aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all its rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." During the early part of the day, the weather was pleasant, with passing clouds ; but when unobscured,... | |
 | 1850
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye m:iy lien ; Rut all its rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone.' " In regard to the " vegetative power" of the margin of the Dead Sea, there mnst apparently be a considerable... | |
 | 1850
...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.' " There was an unpleasant sulphurous smell in the air, which we attributed to the impregnated waters... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1851 - 492 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 aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may keu ; For all is rock, at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone, As if were here... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853
...own day, the lesser hills were covered with foliage.* " But here, above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." i JIU1NS OF " THE MONASTERY.'' But the absence of trees is felt as an evil far less at Glendalough... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fore-edge painting - 1854 - 823 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe,1 And copse on Cruchan-Bcn ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor »ught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocke at random thrown, Black waves,... | |
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