 With these words he raised the pipe that hung at his breast and blew three strains of the appointed air. In former days it used to call from her bower that " fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The...  The Scottish chiefs. Revised - Page 25by Jane Porter - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Jane Porter - Scotland - 1827 - 282 pages
...harp, to call forth from her bower that fair star of evening, the beauteous Marion, who was now forever departed into her native heaven. The notes trembled...agitated breath breathed them into the instrument; but fe«ib!e as they were, and though the roar of the cataract might have prevented their reaching a less... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1869 - 712 pages
...Marion, now departed for ever into her native heaven. — The notes trembled, as Ins agitated breast breathed them into the instrument ; but feeble as...of Wallace, yet he sprung from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing through the rushing waters, the next instant was at the side of Halbert.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Anthologies - 1893 - 516 pages
...used to call from her bower that "fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The notes trembled as his...cataract might have prevented their reaching a less attenti ve ear than that of Wallace, yet he sprang from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...used to call from her bower that " fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The notes trembled as his...a less attentive ear than that of Wallace, yet he sprang from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing through its rushing waters, the next instant... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...used to call from her bower that " fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The notes trembled as his...a less attentive ear than that of Wallace, yet he sprang from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing through its rushing waters, the next instant... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...used to call from her bower that " fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The notes trembled as his...a less attentive ear than that of Wallace, yet he sprang from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing through its rushing waters, the next instant... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 450 pages
...used to call from her bower that " fair star of evening," the beauteous Marion, now departed forever into her native heaven. The notes trembled as his...a less attentive ear than that of Wallace, yet he sprang from the innermost recess under the fall, and dashing through its rushing waters, the next instant... | |
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