Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town... Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - 301 psl.redagavo - 1847Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Thomas Guthrie - 1877 - 828 psl.
...rock, Dr. Guthrie would quote, with all Sir Walter's enthusiasm, the famous lines from Marmion : — " Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " But the older parts of Edinburgh possessed,... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 psl.
...morning beams were shed ; And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But, northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 296 psl.
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1885 - 654 psl.
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town t But northward far with purer blaze,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 366 psl.
...tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur olothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state,...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
| 1885 - 464 psl.
...peopled the wynds and closes of that picturesque stretch of lofty habitations from where — • " The castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massive, close and high, Mine own romantic town." These, I say, will, all in their own... | |
| John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 psl.
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far with purer blaze,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 psl.
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town! But northward far, with purer blaze,... | |
| Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - 1887 - 176 psl.
...JUNIUS S. MORGAN, ESQ Frank Holl, RA 223 — EDINBURGH, from the Salisbury Crags John Mac Whirter, A. " Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the...steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, ' Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " — Marmion. 224 — A TIDAL RIVER:... | |
| John Ruskin - 1888 - 1230 psl.
...morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far with purer blaze. On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
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