 In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down to the...  The history of Stirling. To which is added, a sketch of a tour to Callander ... - Sida 232efter Stirling town - 1812Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Margaret Oswald - 1811 - 76 sidor
...any taste for the grandest and rudest works of nature, must be astonished— must be delighted. « High on the South huge Benvenue, «« Down to the...lake in masses threw, «. Craigs, knolls and mounds confus'dly hurl'd, " The fragments of an earlier world, « While on the north, through middle air,... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1811 - 268 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand, . To centinel enchanted land. High on the south huge Ben-venue Down to the lake in masses threw Craggs, knolls, and mounds confus'dly hurl'd. The fragments of an earlier world. A wildering forest... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled : The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hutl'd. The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses throw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wi'.dering... | |
 | Max Wentworth (fict.name.) - 1839 - 884 sidor
...graceful branches of the weeping birch, between the sister waters of Loch Katrine and Loch Achray. " Craigs, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world." '- I would, too, that you could witness those changing aspects which his native hills are constantly... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurPd, The fragments of an earlier world; POETIC PIECES. A wildering... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hur1'd, The fragments of an earlier world ! A wild'ring forest... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sidor
...Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest... | |
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