 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 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 t/nirud. Canto ///.] Recesses where the wall-flower... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1877 - 162 ページ
...introduction to the third canto of " Marmion" he recalls this home of his infancy in these lines: " 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... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1877 - 172 ページ
...recalls this home of his infancy in these lines: " It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliff's were rudely 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... | |
 | John Keble - 1877 - 584 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 pil'd ; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1878 - 228 ページ
...boy's balladspouting, is painted for us, as everybody knows, in the picture of his infancy given in the introduction to the third canto of Marmion “It...wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled: But ever ahd anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 ページ
...shepherd's reed, Smatl&olm Cotoer. 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 wallflower grew, And honeysuckle... | |
 | John Veitch - 1878 - 636 ページ
..."This ancient fortress and its vicinity," he tells us, " formed the scene of the Editor's infancy, and seemed to claim from him this attempt to celebrate them in a Border Tale." And fortunate for the world it was that they did so: for out of this feeling sprung the ballad of T/ie... | |
 | John Veitch - 1878 - 580 ページ
..."This ancient fortress and its vicinity," he tells us, " formed the scene of the Editor's infancy, and seemed to claim from him this attempt to celebrate them in a Border Tale." And fortunate for the world it was that they did so; for out of this feeling sprung the ballad of The... | |
 | John Veitch - 1878 - 762 ページ
...infancy. "This ancient fortress and its vicinity," he tdls us, " formed the scene of the Editor's infancy, and seemed to claim from him this attempt to celebrate them in a Border Tale." And fortunate for the world it was that they did so: for out of this feeling sprung the ballad of The... | |
 | James Dodds - 1880 - 306 ページ
...border keep:— " Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. 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 wallflower grew, And honeysuckle... | |
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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... 
