| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...or flower, the mountain's child; Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And higber yet the pine tree hung His scattered trunk and frequent flung Where seemed the cliits to meet... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...weather-beaten crags retain ; With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the...rifted rock ; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glistening streamers... | |
| Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 pages
...weather-beaten crags retain; With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the...rifted rock; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high. His boughs athwart the... | |
| Stirling town - 1812 - 328 pages
...every direction. *• With boughs that quaked at every breath* Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock. ~So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." TttE towering Binean rears his... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...weather-heaten crags retain ; With houghs that quaked at every hreath, Gray hirch and aspen vffcpt heneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the...rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His scattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His hows athwart the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...weather-beaten crags retain. With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the...rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the clifis to meet on high, His boughs athwart the... | |
| James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...sighs. With boughs that qnaked at every breath, Grey hirch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash, the warrior oak .Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...weather-beaten crags retain. With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the...rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...weather-beaten crags retain. " With boughs that quaked at every breath, " Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; " Aloft the ash, and warrior oak " Cast anchor in the...flung, " Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, " Hii bowi athwart the narrowed sky." SECTION II. Observations on the river Wye. — Blackwell Mill.... | |
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