| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twjxt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XL The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XL The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
| England - 1838 - 884 pages
...his grave — it is most unhappily out of time and place. " The moon in the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "I" \vi\t poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell,... | |
| George Wilkins - Christianity - 1823 - 376 pages
...beautiful !" exclaimed the Doctor, " how accurate is the poet's description ! — ' The moon on the eastern oriel shone Thro' slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; One would have thought some fairy hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish... | |
| Mrs. Blackford (Martha) - Children's stories, Scottish - 1828 - 214 pages
...picturesquely described in the Lay of the last Minstrel. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought, some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1829 - 740 pages
...around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And thus he describes the foliaged window : " Thou would'st have thought some Fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier hand In many a freakish knot had twin'd, Then fram'da spell when the work was done, And chang'd the... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1831 - 386 pages
...and greatest of minstrels, in his description of Melrose. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed... | |
| Thomas Allen - Drawing - 1832 - 356 pages
...scene in Melrose Abbey, thus alludes to this theory : — "The moon on the east Oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
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