 | Scotland - 1845 - 992 pages
...extreme richness and beauty. In ancient times Bothwell was a place of great feudal splendour, but now The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall. The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall. Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient I/ord, A mimic sovereign held the festal... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1856 - 826 pages
...Beef-barrel, is shewn. Ivy, wild roses, and the yellow wall-flower, adorn the walls. In the poet's words— The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
 | John Wilson, John Leyden - 1859 - 132 pages
...mountain's head. Remote in space the twinkling star is seen, Though twice ten thousand systems intervene. The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall ; The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall ; Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
 | Hugh MacDonald - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1860 - 472 pages
...and the daw have long had their homes in the mouldering towers. To quote again from the " Clyde :"— "The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign held the festal... | |
 | Angus Macpherson - Blantyre (Scotland) - 1862 - 156 pages
...is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My nails is drove, my work is done." BOTHWELL CASTLE. " The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - Scotland - 1867 - 538 pages
...de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and after the expulsion of the English was restored to the Murrays. " The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall. Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's • ancient lord, Л mimic sovereign, held the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1883 - 292 pages
...are 14 feet thick, and 60 feet in height. They are covered with ivy, wild roses, and wall-flowers. " The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
 | George Henderson (writer on Bothwell.), J. Jeffrey Waddell - Archaeology - 1904 - 282 pages
...once known as Chapelflats, has been changed to the less distinctive name of Meadowbank. UIJDCR me " The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall. Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient Lord, A mimic sovereign held his festive... | |
 | Canniff Haight - Great Britain - 1904 - 684 pages
...Wallace's Beef Barrel," a deep dungeon, is seen, where the Douglases safely housed their prisoners. " The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall. The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall. Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lonl. A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1908 - 294 pages
...are 14 feet thick, and 60 feet in height. They are covered with ivy, wild roses, and wall-flowers. *' The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord> A mimic sovereign, held the festal... | |
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The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal board. 