 | 1830 - 596 страници
...poets without knowledge of the objects described. Sir "NV. Scott, in the passage cited against me, " E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic, from her airy tread," is writing, I may remark, in English, and more attentive, probably, to the harmony of his verse than... | |
 | 1865 - 396 страници
...finer form or lovelier face. What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace ; A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew," &cTHE COLOURED MAN'S PRAYER. A BLACK minister was closing up his prayer, when some white boys in the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 страници
...glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 страници
...more light, a step more true, Never from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; Even the slight hare-ball raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread ; What though upon her speech there lying The accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds so soft, so dear The listener held... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 страници
...glimpses of a breast of snow ; What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from...tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid;Her satin snood, her silken... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 страници
...her glowing hue so bright, Served, too, in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow: A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. What, though... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 страници
...glimpses of a hreast of snow; What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more light, a step more true. Ne'er from the heath- flower dashed the daw E'en the slight hare-hell railed its head. Elastic from her airy tread... | |
 | Floral fancies - 1843 - 372 страници
...this is the flower, no doubt, intended by Scott, when describing his Lady of the Lake : he says — " E'en the slight Hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." The bulbous root of the Blue-bell is full of a slimy, glutinous juice, which, in Gerarde's time, was... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 страници
...glimpses of a breast of snow ; What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from...tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid; Her satin snood, her silken... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 434 страници
...mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head,...so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear. XIX. 31 Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast... | |
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E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear. 
