 | 1833 - 618 pages
...every visitant was desired to inscribe his name. The poet to his signature subjoined these lines : — PHAROS LOQUITUR. /' Far in the bosom of the deep,...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." With the lamented Mungo Park, the poet of Scotland formed a close friendship after the return of the... | |
 | Science - 1833 - 700 pages
...bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail *." FROM the important nature of the experiments and trials lately made with various lights at Gullan... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...bosom of the deep, O'er these wide shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Round on the dusky brow of night ; The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous s.-ii. CHRONICLES OF THE SEA. No. 3.] [Jan. 20, 1838. LOSS OF THE ABERGAVENNY. Loss of the Earl of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 pages
...to inscribe his name in the album of the tower, Scott penned immediately the following lines : — " PHAROS LOQUITUR. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail." again at nine, and run down, through a rough sea, to Aberbrothock, vulgarly called Arbroath. All sick,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 450 pages
...to inscribe his name in the album of the tower, Scott penned immediately the following lines : — " PHAROS LOQUITUR. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er...brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorus to strike his timorous sail." again at nine, and run down, through a rough sea, to Aberbrothock,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 428 pages
...inscribe his name m the album of the tower, Scott penned immediately the following lines : — • " PHAROS LOQUITUR. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er...the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre haU, And scorns to strike his timorous sail.'* again at nine, and run down, through a rough sea, to... | |
 | 1840 - 320 pages
...the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gem of changeful light, f Bound on the dusky brow of night : The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail. July 30, 1814. WALTER SCOTT. SALMON-FISHING ANECOOTE, A tall, stout, young Campbell,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 pages
...PIECES, NOT CONTAINED IN ANY FORMER EDITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS. PHAROS LOQUITUR.1 FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. LINES,3 ADDRESSED TO RANALD MACDONALD, ESQ., OF STAFFA. STAFFA, sprung from high Macdonald, Worthy... | |
 | Angus - 1843 - 368 pages
...Walter, at the request of the party, inscribed his name in the album, with the following verses : — " Pharos loquitur. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." crament was administered, some hundreds of the parishioners sat on an eminence about... | |
 | John Smeaton - Lighthouses - 1844 - 144 pages
...bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail1.' THE most celebrated lighthouse in Scotland is that situated on the dangerous reef called the... | |
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Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail. 
