 | George Hay - Arbroath (Scotland) - 1876 - 498 pages
...visitors' book : ' Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch 1 keep. A ru,hly gem of changeful light Bound on the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre hail, .Ind scorns to strike his tim'rous sail.' In 1807, Mr Hay being provost at the time, the Town Council,... | |
 | Young people - 1877 - 696 pages
...LIGHTHOUSE. " Far in the bosom of the deep, ' O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gleam of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night;...my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous tail." SCOTT. I.—THE EDDYSTONE. 'i HERE are few enterprises more heroic or beneficent than those... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Technology & Engineering - 1878 - 370 pages
...historical account of the celebrated lighthouse to which this chapter is more particularly devoted. PHAROS loquitur. " Far in the bosom of the deep O'er...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." SIR WALTER SCOTT.* * Written by the great novelist in the Album of the Lighthouse, when he Tisited... | |
 | David Stevenson - 1878 - 336 pages
...written in the Album of the Lighthouse, when he landed with a deputation of the Commissioners in 1814. " Far in the bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." CHAPTER III. LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION. 1801—1843. Early modes of illumination — Facet reflectors... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...lines in the album kept in the lighthouse when he visited it in 1815 : — " Pharos Loquitur, Far on the bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." Many men engaged in great engineering works have been content to allow all actually... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 862 pages
...lighthouse in 1815, he wrote in the album kept there the following lines : PHAIIOS LOQUITUR. 1 Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my...brow of Night ; The seaman bids my lustre hail, And sooriis to strike his tim'rous sail. ' A work precisely similar to the erection of the Bell Rock Lighthouse... | |
 | 1878 - 926 pages
...Rock lighthouse. " Far in the bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy Rem of changeful light Bound on the dusky brow of night....lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." Sir Walter Scott visited the rock in the autumn of 1814 along with Mr. Robert Stevenson and the Commissioners... | |
 | Benjamin Blower - Liverpool (England) - 1878 - 158 pages
...bosom of the deep, On these wild shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gleam of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night ; The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail.1' — Scott. But what shall we say of the strand; the sands between the Ferry and the... | |
 | English literature - 1880 - 588 pages
...visited the tower in 1814, and left the following carte de visile in the album of the lighthouse : — ' Pharos loquitur. Far in the bosom of the deep O'er...Bound on the dusky brow of night ; The seaman bids ray lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail.' In the same year in which he wrote the above... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1880 - 406 pages
...POETICAL WORKS. PHAROS LOQUITUR.* FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. * [" On the 30th of July, 1814, Mr Hamilton,! Mr Erskine.j ;md Mr Duff,3 Commissioners, along with... | |
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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. 
