 | John Veitch - Scottish ballads and songs - 1878 - 636 pages
...too, his imaginative love of legend and story and old feudal life was inspired and nourished : — " And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power ; And marvell'd as the aged hind With some strange tale bewitched my mind, Of forayers, who, with headlong... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1879 - 414 pages
...the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the long crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round surveyed." Not that these could have been instinctive in a child in the Middle Ages. The... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 pages
...velvet tufts of loveliest green ; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and...deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round surveyed ; And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power ; And... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1880 - 538 pages
...low crag and rniu'd wall. I deem'd such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round survey'd ; And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power; And marvell'd as the aged hind With some strange tale bewitch'd my mind, Of forayers. who, with headlong... | |
 | James Dodds - Covenanters - 1880 - 288 pages
...velvet tufts of loveliest green. And well the lonely infant knew Eecesses where the wallflower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall." Almost beneath the shadow of Smailholm Tower, James Dodds opened his rustic school, and began a career... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 600 pages
...Eve of St. John." Then rose those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power. Marmion. Smith College. A well-endowed institution in Northampton, Mass., designed for the higher education... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 902 pages
...knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew. And honey-suckle loved to crawl Dp the low crag and rained wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all !»• round surveyed ; And still I thought that shattered tower The mightiest work of human power... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 910 pages
...well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Dp the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks...human power ; And marvelled as the aged hind With some sirange tale bewitched my mind Of forayers, who, with headlong force, Down from that strength had spurred... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 pages
...to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. I deem'd such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round surveyed ; And still I thought that shattered...marvelled as the aged hind, With some strange tale bewitch'd my miiid, Of forayers who, with headlong force, Down from that strength had spurr'd their... | |
 | Mary (queen of Scots.) - 1882 - 274 pages
...wild rose and honeysuckle signs of unwholesome air ? "And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the lone crags and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all his round surveyed.'" It seems to me, in the nooks most haunted by honeysuckle in my own wood, that the reason for its twining... | |
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It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag... 
