 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
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...reading the description, irill not recall the lines — ' 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, Aa if were here denied 'fhe summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...buil in deep Glencroe,1 And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower,...vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is nicks at random thrown, Black waves, b.tre crags, and banks of stone, A» if were here denied The summer... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...ean show, Some toueh of nature's genial glow ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or on glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye ean ken. Seott's Lord of tie Islo Oh ! who ean tell the unspeakable misery Of solitude like this !... | |
 | William Francis Lynch - Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) - 1855 - 454 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." There was an unpleasant sulphureous smell in the air, which we attributed to the impregnated waters... | |
 | Walter White - Tyrol (Austria) - 1856 - 350 pages
...which a torrent raves and plunges. All rock and stone — nothing else : a valley of desolation ; " As if were here denied The summer sun, the spring's...with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain-side." And the road is a mere shelf, hewn out of the face of the cliff; and by-and-by you come to the famous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; Bur 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 is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 468 pages
...heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Bon ; 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. xv. And wilder, forward as they wound, Were the proud cliifs and lake profound. Huge terraces of granite... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 390 pages
...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,...sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest3 mountain-side.4 1 [JIS.— " Dark banks."] • [MS.-" And * indeepG,encoe."] 4 [The Quarterly... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 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,...random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stoue, As if were here denied The Summer sun, the Spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied... | |
 | George Ranken, William Bayne Ranken - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1857 - 174 pages
...rocky or parched, and dusty, and not a blade of grass, and not a shrub or tree is to be seen, " But all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags,...dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest mountain side.'1 Above all this there is a magnificent blue sky and a glorious sun. The climate of... | |
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