 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...paused, so strange the road, Bo wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ehhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was hathed in floods of living tire. But not a setting heam could glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where... | |
 | West Point (N.Y.) - 1844 - 126 pages
...afternoon, these lines from Scott are by no means inappropriate. " The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...so dull and stern. SCOTT'S MABMION, (CANTO n.) LOCH KATRINE. THE western waves of ebbing day Eoll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell, Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...— Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!" . . . Were the last words of Marmion. THE TROSACHS. THE western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living nre. But not a setting beam coula glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...humble aim, To guide the soul to Heaven ! BARTON. LOCH KATRINE. THE western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, Where... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 pages
...— Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on 1 "... Were the last words of Marmion. THE TROSACHS. THE western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen...Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
 | Francis Trench - Scotland - 1846 - 630 pages
...common to many travellers whom I have heard speaking of it. The western waves of ebbing day, Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pages
...beauty and sublimity, renders all farther detail unnecessary : " The western waves of ebbing day RolFd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravine below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly through... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...scatter'd Southron fled before.* THE TRO8ACHS AND LOCH KATRINE. The western waves of ebbing day RolTd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. The western waves of ebhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple...flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. Hut not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where twined the path, in shadow hid,... | |
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The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round... 
