| Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 ページ
...lovely vale, While 'gainst the sun his armour bright Gleamed ruddy like the beacon's light. xin. " Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crowned, Buttress, and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower j Seemed some primeval giant's... | |
| Mountford John B. Baddeley - 1880 - 284 ページ
...road down St. John's Vale, through which flow the waters of Thirlmere, strikes off on the right. " Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed." Such is the poetical way of looking at the stream by which the waters, gathered on the whole of the... | |
| George Milner - 1881 - 370 ページ
...narrow valley of Saint John, Down sloping to the western sky. And his further description is not inapt : Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...rampire's circling bound,' And mighty keep and tower. We found this vale full of refreshing contrast and healing influence as we wandered along it on Sunday... | |
| English lakes - 1881 - 170 ページ
...Thelkeld's waste and wood, Till on his course obliquely shone The narrow Valley of SAINT JOHN. ***** Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crowned, Buttress and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower ; Seemed some primeval giant's... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1881 - 852 ページ
...Paled in by many a lofty Mil, The narrow dale lay smooth and .• f Hi, And, down its verdant boaom led, A winding brooklet found its bed. But midmost of the vale, a mound Aro«? with airy turro ts orown'd, Buttress, and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower... | |
| Walter Scott - 1882 - 780 ページ
...level light, And, from beneath his glove of mail, Scann'd at his ease the lovely vale, While r*.vnst the sun his armour bright Gleam'd ruddy like the beacon's...midmost of the vale, a mound Arose with airy turrets crown 'd. Buttress, and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower ; ?<>Id, Seem'd some primeval... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 ページ
...the lovely vale, While 'gainst the sun his armour bright Gleamed ruddy like the beacon's light. 13. " Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crowned, Buttress, and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower ; Seemed some primeval giant's... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 ページ
...the lovely vale, While 'gainst the sun his armour bright Gleamed ruddy like the beacon's light. 13. " Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crowned, t Buttress, and rampire's circling bouml, And mighty keep and tower ; Seemed some primeval... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1883 - 858 ページ
...senses of King Arthur:— Jown tkipinc to the western iky* V. !rtr.r lingering uunbeainj love to> A». Paled in by many a lofty hill. The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And, down itB verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed. But midmost of the vale, a mound Arose with... | |
| 1884 - 370 ページ
...Bridal of Tricrmain," has its scene here ; and the. description of the vale cannot be surpassed : — " Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay...the vale, a mound Arose with airy turrets crown'd, Seem'd some primeval giant's hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd, A ponderous bulwark, to withstand... | |
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