| Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...after its completion, which occasioned the lines from him : • I'lIAROS LOQUITUR. Far In the bourn of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep,...the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre h&il. And scorns to strike his timorous sail.' tfontrose, at the month of. the South Esk, is a remarkably... | |
| William Ballingall - Fife (Scotland) - 1872 - 242 pages
...loquitur. ' Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch 1 keep ; A ruddy gem of watchful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night ; The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his vent'rous sail.' So it is in calm weather, but if we would see it in storm look at Mr. Bough's powerful... | |
| Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1873 - 614 pages
...Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. 1824. FAR in the hosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves mv watch I keep ; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound...my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sal MR. KEMBLE'S FAREWELL ADDRESS, ON TAKING LEAVE OF THE EDINBURGH STAGE. These lines first appeared,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1008 pages
...— " PHAROS LOOTITUR. " Far In the bosom of the deep, O'er thesa wll.l sh.-lv.-i my wateh I k«p ; A ruddy gem of changeful light. Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre ball, And scorns to strike his timorous tall.*' t This is, without doubt, an allusion to some happy... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Civil engineers - 1874 - 434 pages
...bosom of the deep, O•er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A mrtdy gem of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night ; The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail.— Sir Walter Scott* LIFE OF JOHN SMEATON. CHAPTEE I. SMEATON'S BOYHOOD AND EDUCATION. • THE engineer... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...PHAROS LOQUITUB. ' Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er those wild shelveH my watch I keep; A ruddy géra of changeful light. Bound on the dusky brow of night: The seaman bid« my lustre hail. And scorns to strike hia tim'rous sail.* BELOOCHISTAN, an extensive country in... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...liberty. SIK WALTER SCOTT. Born 1771. Died 1832. WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BELL-ROCK LIGHTHOUSE. Pharoe loquitur, Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. It is not probable that Sir Walter took this from a Greek epigram, but the thought is almost identical... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1875 - 408 pages
...hearts shall bound at their story, And hallow the goblet that flows to their fame. IJfiaros U1nuttur.1 FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. 3Ltiies,3 ADDRESSED TO RANALD MACDONALD, ESQ. OF STAFFA. 3 1814. STAFFA, sprung from high Macdonald,... | |
| William Marshall - Angus (Scotland) - 1875 - 328 pages
...his fine impromptu he makes the Pharos speak thus : — " Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er thosa wild shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gem of changeful...The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike bis tim'rous sail" ST VIGEANS. It is not to be doubted that on the sculptured stones at St Vigeans... | |
| George Hay - Arbroath (Scotland) - 1876 - 492 pages
...beautiful expression to his estimate of its value in the lines which he wrote in the visitors' book : ' Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail. ' In 1807, Mr Hay being provost at the time, the Town Council, on 2d July, passed this... | |
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