 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...  The highlands of Scotland - Стр. 41авторы: Mountford John B. Baddeley - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - Страниц: 444
...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 again appearing,... | |
 | James Duncan - 1820 - Страниц: 250
...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...of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Canto I. St. 13. " Advancing by the side of the lake, we pass along a road, cut out with immense labour,... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - 1821 - Страниц: 378
...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...of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The road passes along the side of the lake, cut out with immense labour, in a solid rock which overhangs... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - Страниц: 222
...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...of brim, As served the wild duck's brood to swim." Benan " heaves high his forehead bare" above the mountains of the Trosachs. For several hundred yards... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - Страниц: 294
...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 again appearing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - Страниц: 582
...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 again appearing,... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 480
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, " still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused by the deep shadows of Benvenue's... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 62
...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 breadth of brim As serve the wild duck's brood to swim. On reaching the banks of Loch-Ketturin, he will be astonished... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - Страниц: 490
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, " still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused by the deep shadows of Benvenue's... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - Страниц: 498
...bursts upon the view, and the surprising beauty of the scene at the little creek which it forms, - still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim, As served the wild-duck's brood to swim." The waters here, though of transparent clearness, have a murky hue, caused... | |
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