 | 1857 - 818 ページ
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Tet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill, and clear, blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...piled ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle... | |
 | Alexander Jeffrey - 1855 - 396 ページ
...scenery thus described by Sir Walter Scott :§— " It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffi were rudely piled; But ever and anon between, Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lovely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckles... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1858 - 100 ページ
...Smailholm-tower; and notes as follows the scenery of the place, and the influence it had on his mind:— " It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...piled; But ever and anon, between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 228 ページ
...preliminary epistles of " Marmion," as follows, the impression it had made on his young fancy:— " It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...piled; But ever and anon, between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 ページ
...homage from a shepherd's reed) Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...piled», But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green* And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew» And honey-suckle... | |
 | Oliver and Boyd messrs - 1860 - 672 ページ
...Marmion." " Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour. . . . It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufta of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 324 ページ
...prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour. It was a barren scene and wild Where naked cliffs were rudely piled 5 But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Eecesses... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1861 - 384 ページ
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled j But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 ページ
...homage from a shepherd's reed ; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs...piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1863 - 398 ページ
...Where naked clifls were rudely piled ; • Bat ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade... | |
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and seemed to claim from him this attempt to celebrate them in a Border tale. 1 1 [See the Introduction to the third canto of Marmion. . . . " It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet... 
