 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...ebbing day Rolled 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...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...ebbing day Rolled 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...rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The native...Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...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...below. Where twined the path, in shadow hid. Round many 8 rocky pyramid. Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle ; Hound many an insulated... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1813 - 496 pages
...was fortunately provided with sufficient shelter from the storm by a lofty and perpendicular rock, " Huge as the tower, which builders vain " Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain," — the whole so strange in form, and so broken into recesses and projections, that fancy VOL. I. T might here,... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...ebbing day Roll'd 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 turn'd the path, in shadows hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-spHnter'd... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...Was hathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting heam conld glow Within the dark ravines helow, Where twined the path, in shadow hid', Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting ahruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native hulwarks... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. J?ut not a setting beam could glow, Within the dark ravines...the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooling abruptly from the dell Its thunder.splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass, The... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...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 mass, The native... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...ebbing day Roll'd 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 turn'd the path, in shadows hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, • Shooting abruptly from the dell Its... | |
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The western waves of ebbing day Rolled 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, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round... 
