 But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.  The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Inverness, Ross and Cromarty - Page 2991845Full view - About this book
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.) - 1851 - 848 pages
...But here— above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Xor tree, nor shrub, nur plant, nor llower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken For all is rock at nindom'thrown : Black waves, bare roeks, and banks of stone, As if were here denied The Summer... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 202 pages
...nest for outlaws — or that, almost in our own day, the lesser hills were covered with foliage.* " But here, above, around, below, On mountain or in...thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." i JIU1NS OF " THE MONASTERY.'' But the absence of trees is felt as an evil far less at Glendalough... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe,1 And copse on Cruchan-Bcn ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or...glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor »ught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocke at random thrown, Black waves,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...very sublimity of barrenness ; and who, on reading the description, irill not recall the lines — ' But here — above, around, below, On mountain or...thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone, Aa if were here denied 'fhe summer sun, the spring's sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...hi^'h Bf.mnore green mosses grow, And heath-bells buil in deep Glencroe,1 And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or...vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is nicks at random thrown, Black waves, b.tre crags, and banks of stone, A» if were here denied The summer... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...ean show, Some toueh of nature's genial glow ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or on glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye ean ken. Seott's Lord of tie Islo Oh ! who ean tell the unspeakable misery Of solitude like this !... | |
 | William Francis Lynch - Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) - 1855 - 454 pages
...plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all its rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." There was an unpleasant sulphureous smell in the air, which we attributed to the impregnated waters... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; Bur here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in...glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 500 pages
...tree, nor plant, nor shrub, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The wearied eye may ken ; But all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone." Lord of the Isles, canto in. Here, again, we see the absolute necessity of scientific and entire acquaintance... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 468 pages
...On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Bon ; But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or...plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone, As if were here denied... | |
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