 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when... | |
 | James Duncan - Roads - 1820 - 250 pages
...wide and varied expanse to which it stretches out as we proceed. Mr. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Canto I. St. 13. " Advancing by the side of the lake, we pass... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...little promise of that majestic width it soon assumes, being, as Sir W. Scott has well described it, ' " A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The road passes along the side of the lake, cut out with immense... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 222 pages
...by a contracted body of water which stretches out as you proceed. Scott has well described it as " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Benan " heaves high his forehead bare" above the mountains of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...wonderous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. xnl. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim ; Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...wond'rous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served die wild-duck's brood to swim. l<*l for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when... | |
 | 1831 - 62 pages
...the scene of action and gives name to the pass, the stranger obtains a first glimpse of LochKetturin, A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such...wild duck's brood to swim. On reaching the banks of Loch-Ketturin, he will be astonished with the magnificent landscape which meets his gaze. Nature in... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...wond'rous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when... | |
 | 1842 - 858 pages
...gives little intimation of the wide and varied expanse to which it stretches out as you proceed — " A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As serv'd the wild-duck's brood to swim." In advancing forward, the Lake is lost for a few minutes, but... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering. But broader when... | |
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gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the... 
