 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Common fallacies - 1837 - 414 pages
...inexhaustible variety of beautiful forms of open work. As Sir Walter Scott has beautifully described it — " Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt...straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone."... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...book, lying on his breast in his grave — it is most unhappily out of time and place. " The moon in the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work wan done, And changed... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...moon on the east oriel »hone9 Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged traceryfcombined: Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt...straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...And thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! Oh fading honours of the dead ! Oh high ambition, lowly laid ! The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...from Scott: " The moon on Ibe East oriel shone "Throughstcndershaftsofshapety[Ae catled Hshapeless] stone " By foliaged tracery combined ; " Thou wouldst...straight the osier wand -• In many a freakish knot had twined, 1 - Then framed a spell when the work was done, " And changed the willow wreaths to stone."... | |
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...trim, With base and with capital flourish'd around. Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdaln ! '• O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone" Through slender...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand TwUt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when... | |
 | Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 pages
...words to express the emotions which the contemplation of the window itself cannot fail to inspire : — The Moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, ' Twist poplar's straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...! And thine, dark knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid! The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand The silver light so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...And thine, dark knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid! The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hiuid 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand The silver light so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet,... | |
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The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the... 
