| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Francis Hindes Groome - 1882 - 330 psl.
...Blackford Hill, and is thus described by Sir Walter Scott as seen by Lord Marmion, 'fairer scene he ne'er surveyed : ' ' The wandering eye could o'er it go. And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| 1882 - 686 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er eurvev'd, When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow.... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; [slow, For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and That round her sable turrets... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er surveyed. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 184 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 psl.
...fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow,... | |
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