| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue...the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined... | |
| Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Scotland - 1811 - 268 pages
...impurpled bright Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand, . To centinel enchanted land. High on the south huge Ben-venue Down to the lake in masses threw Craggs, knolls, and mounds confus'dly hurl'd. The fragments of an earlier world. A wildering forest... | |
| Margaret Oswald - Callander (Scotland) - 1811 - 76 pages
...any taste for the grandest and rudest works of nature, must be astonished— must be delighted. « High on the South huge Benvenue, «« Down to the lake in masses threw, «. Craigs, knolls and mounds confus'dly hurl'd, " The fragments of an earlier world, « While on the... | |
| Stirling town - 1812 - 328 pages
...person of any taste for the grandest and rudest works of nature, must be astonished and delighted. 41 High on the south huge Benvenue, Down to the lake in masses threw Craigs, knolls and mounds confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world : While on the north,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and hay, And islands that, empurpled hright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants...the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled : The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - History - 1821 - 470 pages
...far winding lay "With promontory, creek, and bay ; " And islands that empurpled bright " Floated amid the livelier light ; "•' And mountains that like giants stand " To sentinel enchanted land.1' — S«OTT. The Indian name for this lake is Kom-tonor-gog-omog, — the Canadians call it... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hutl'd. The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright. Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants...To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Beii-vemir Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolU, and mounds, confusedly hurl '1 The fragments... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined... | |
| 1828 - 452 pages
...far-winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, large Benvenue Down on the lake its masses threw, Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The... | |
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