 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 Benvenue Down on the lake...  Guide to the Romantic Scenery of Loch-Lomond, Loch-Ketturin, the Trosachs, &c - Page 421831 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Polwhele - 1816 - 746 pages
...is a curious extract from an old Rubric:— Paris— 15(33. J High on the South huge Bewenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds,...confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; — BERGES, Burges, a citizen. BERN,! a heap ', a rick of 'corn , hay. BERNiGAN,ta limpet ;pl. Brennick... | |
 | 1819 - 414 pages
...And mountains that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venne Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled. The fragments of an earlier world;— A wlldering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down on the lake...confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feather'd o'er His ruin'd sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down on the lake...confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world, A wildering forest feather'd o'er His ruin'd sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...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 feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge lien-venue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of au earlier world ; A wildering forest feather'd o'er His nun d sides and summit hoar, While on the... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 480 pages
...is well expressed in the following lines : " High on the south huge Benvenue, Down to the lake his masses threw ; Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world." Ben-an, again, is of inferior, though of imposing height., and can be ascended on the south side to... | |
 | William Finden, William Brockedon - 1832 - 102 pages
...RA " The train has left the hills of Braid."— Marmion. BEN-VENUE, FROM A DRAWING BY GF ROBSON. " High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down on the lake...masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world." — Lady of the Lake. BASS ROCK, FROM л DRAWING BY JMW... | |
 | Scottish tourist - Scotland - 1832 - 490 pages
...is well expressed in the following lines : " High on the south huge Benvenue, Down to the lake his masses threw ; Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world." Ben-an, again, is of inferior, though of imposing height, and can be ascended on the south side to... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1834 - 286 pages
...3 " the bristled territory ;" and from it may be ima;ined the general character of the scene — " Crags, knolls,, and mounds confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world" — a defile of unequalled wildness and beauty, exhibiting an assemblage of grey and pinnaded rocks, interspersed... | |
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