 In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.  A tour in Tartan-land, by Cuthbert Bede - Page 223by Edward Bradley - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with...the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with...the setting sun. One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and... | |
 | 1812 - 318 pages
...gleaming with the setting snn, " One burnish'd sheet of living gold " l/och Katrine lay beneath him roHt " In all her length far winding lay " With promontory, creek, and bay," &c. Loch Katrine is here very properly and very poeti rally personified, and Mr. Scott represents her... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...projecting precipice. The hroom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One hurnished sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay heneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...Firth the eye might note, Whose islands on its bosom float, Like emeralds chasM in gold." Marmion. " And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with...With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands, that impurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains that like giants stand, To centinel... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled . In all her length far winding... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won. Where, gleaming with the setting sun, Dne burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Lock-Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far-winding... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...projecting precipice. (4) The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting suu, One burnish 'd sheet of living gold. Loch Katrine Iny beneath him roll'd. In all her length far... | |
 | James Johnson - Health - 1831 - 326 pages
...the tumultuous tide of impressions, half of which we can neither receive, dispose of, nor retain ! " And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, The ocean lay beneath him rolled ; In all its length far winding lay,... | |
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