| Walter Scott - 1853 - 402 ページ
...birch and oak,1 1 MS. — Tlio ruptgod mountain's stunted screen THE C'DM DAT With shingles liare, and cliffs between, And patches bright of bracken...were torn, Where wintry torrents down had borne, And heup'd upon the cumber'd land .Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand. So toilsome was the road to trace,... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 ページ
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...fringed the swamp and hill; And oft both path and lull were torn, Where wintry torrent down had borne, And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1892 - 292 ページ
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, 10 With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...wintry torrents down had borne, And heap'd upon the cumberM land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand. 20 So toilsome was the road to trace, The guide,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 ページ
...hardihood against a hosi. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...hill were torn. Where wintry torrents down had borne, THE COMBAT. 161 And heap'd upon the cumber'd land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand So toilsome... | |
| 1895 - 96 ページ
...picture of such a land : — . " The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare and cliffs between And patches...black, that waved so high It held the copse in rivalry. And oft both path and hill were torn Where wintry torrents down had borne And heaped upon the cumbered... | |
| Leeds Geological Association - 1895 - 96 ページ
...— " Tbe rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare :md cliffs between And patches bright of bracken green,...black, that waved so high It held the copse in rivalry. And oft both path and hill were torn Where wintry torrents down had borne And heaped upon the cumbered... | |
| William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1899 - 712 ページ
...Presumptuous piled on Shina's plain, Those rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome or battlement. " And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrents down had borne. And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of gravel, rocks and sand." This particular place has been... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 ページ
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak. With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...were torn. Where wintry torrents down had borne, And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand. So toilsome was the road to trace,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 680 ページ
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...were torn, Where wintry torrents down had borne, And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand. So toilsome was the road to trace,... | |
| William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1899 - 920 ページ
...Presumptuous piled on Shina's plain, Those rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome or battlement. " And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrents down had borne, And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of gravel, rocks and sand." This particular place has been... | |
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