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" The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below... "
Scotland, Its Faith and Its Features: Or, A Visit to Blair Athol - Page 112
by Francis Trench - 1846
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The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XL The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly...
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The Lady of the Lake;: A Poem

Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. X. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1811 - 868 pages
...wares of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; ., Each purple peak, each flinty »pire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below. Where twined the path, in shadow hid. Round many 8 rocky pyramid. Shooting abruptly...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 9

Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...wettern waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty ipire. Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Witllin the dark ravines below, ., Where twined the path, in shadow bid. Round many a rocky pyramid,...
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Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire:: made chiefly for the purpose of ...

Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...have realized one of Sir Walter Scott's most beautiful descriptions in the Lady of the Lake : — " The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen...level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below —...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 4

Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it showed. XI. The western waves of ehhing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was hathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting heam conld glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 5

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...comrades of the day; Yet often paused, so strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen...But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from...
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Duncan's Itinerary of Scotland: With the Principal Roads to London, Copious ...

James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...can be more literally correct or poetically beautiful: — " The western waves of ebhing day Waved o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak,...flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. J?ut not a setting beam could glow, Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow...
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An autumn near the Rhine; or, Sketches of courts, society, scenery etc. in ...

Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...of ebbing day Roll'd on the glen their level ray ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twin'd the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Round many an insulated...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 4

Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...strange the road, So wondrous were the scenes it show'd. XI. The western waves of ebbing day RolTd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bath'd in floods of living fire, But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where...
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