 DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 71808Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900
...published in 1808. — ED. MARMION. CANTO FIRST. THE CASTLE. I. DAY set on Norham's castle steep,1 ,And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,2 1 See Appendix, Note C. *It is perhaps unnecessary to remind my readers that the donjon, in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900
...was published in 1808. — ED. ' MARMION. CANTO FIRST. THE CASTLE. DAY set on Norham's castle steep,1 And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,2 1 See Appendix, Note C. 2 It is perhaps unnecessary to remind my readers that the donjon, in... | |
 | Cosmo Rose-Innes - South African War, 1899-1902 - 1901 - 180 pages
...Beverley, as they approached the fortress of their grim northern host. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turret high, Moving across the evening sky Seemed... | |
 | Banister Fletcher - Architecture - 1901 - 528 pages
...storeys in height ; all being surrounded by a lofty wall with ramparts and parapet and a deep moat. "The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep." — SCOTT. Ex. : White Tower, London (AD 1081-1090) (No. 100 A). B ;t CASTlf A'NO«HANKUPIUO, B-WIQOfniK... | |
 | Charles Alfred Swinburne - Landscape painting, English - 1902 - 315 pages
...by Sir Walter Scott in the opening of ' Marmion ' as follows : ' Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.' Scott paints it by evening light — the day setting on it, casting... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902
...description: " tragical incident," etc. XXVI.— SUNSET ON THE BORDER. 1. Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, And Cheviot's...the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep3 The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow luster shone. 2. The warriors on the turrets... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 195 pages
...throughout life, a mixed and moderate cup of enjoyment CHARLOTTE BRONTE. Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1903
...parting groan. (From Tke Lay of Ike Last Mitutrtl) Norham Castle. Day set on Norham 's castled steep, $P E sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 923 pages
...Lnckhart's Life of Scott, Vol. Ill, Chap. 1C. CANTO FIRST THE CASTLE DAY set on Norham's castled steep. en Page sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high. Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | 1904
...morning for Edinburgh. He crossed the border safely, but just after leaving " Norham's castled steep," The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, Carey met with an accident by falling from his horse. He was almost stunned, and felt very weak,... | |
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