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. The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Page 26by Walter Scott - 1844 - 383 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1810 - 538 pages
...burnish'd sheet of living pold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length far winding l.iy, With promontory, creek and bay. And Islands that,...bright. Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, th.it 1'ke giants stand, To centinul enchanted land. • High on the south, hu^e Benvenue Down to the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch- Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding ky, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that,...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Beuvenuc Down to the lake in masses threw . ' Crags,... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...sutl, One bnramh'd sheet of living gold, Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled; In all her length tar winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And...livelier light; And mountains, that like giants stand, To »eiumi 1 enchanted land. High on the south, hug« Ben-Venue ilu'.Mi to the lake in massée threw (,'un.ujT.... | |
| 1810 - 430 pages
...29. One burnish' d sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him roll'd ; In all her length, far winding lay, With promontory creek and bay, And islands...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. SCOTT. TO THE SPY. SIR, , I CONCLUDED my last with an account of my evenings... | |
| Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Scotland - 1811 - 268 pages
...Catherine, In all her length far crowding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that impurpled bright 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,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and hay, And islands that, empurpled hright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that...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... | |
| 1819 - 414 pages
...all her length far winding lay, With promenlory, creek, and hay, And islands that empurpled hright. Floated amid the livelier light; 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,... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - History - 1821 - 470 pages
..." burnished sheet of living gold" that gleaming with the declining sun — " In all her length far winding lay "With promontory, creek, and bay ; " And...mountains that like giants stand " To sentinel enchanted land.1' — S«OTT. The Indian name for this lake is Kom-tonor-gog-omog, — the Canadians call it... | |
| James Hogg - 1821 - 356 pages
...us. One burnish'd sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him roll'd ; In all her length, far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And...light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. SCOTT. He entertained me with stories of ancient superstition, and anecdotes... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To centinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feather'd o'er His ruin'd... | |
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