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" The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,... "
Eliza Cook's journal - Page 295
1854
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 2, Part 1

1806 - 502 pages
...tracery combined; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on...
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - Fore-edge painting - 1806 - 342 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought, some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint,...
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem

Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pages
...fantastie faee or Thon wouldst have thonght some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And ehanged the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and...
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - Clans - 1811 - 310 pages
...Cordelia, the projections from which the arches spring, usually cut into a fantastic face or mask. Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint Whose image on the...
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The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint,...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint,...
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The Border Antiquities of England & Scotland: Comprising Specimens of the ...

Walter Scott (sir).) - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1814 - 592 pages
...tracery combined, Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot, had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." The roof of the chancel, of which a part is still remaining, was supported...
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Letters on England: Comprising Descriptive Scenes ; with Remarks ..., Volume 1

Joshua E. White - England - 1816 - 382 pages
...fairy's hand., 'Twist poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twin'd; Then form'da spell, when the work, was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 44

England - 1838 - 884 pages
...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "I" \vi\t poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a...work was done, And changed the willow -wreaths to stone." Sir Walter says in a note, that it is impossible to conceive a more beautiful specimen of the...
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