| National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 sider
...and to the south, just at our feet, reposed in queenly beauty, Loch Lomond, bestudded with " All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." Having deeply enjoyed this bewitching scene, we descended the mountain, and arrived at Rowardennan... | |
| James Scott - 1848 - 382 sider
...sprinkled as many islets. A poet who describes them, says, — " The fairy crowds Of islands which together lie, As quietly as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds." Smollet has consecrated in undying verse, the . outlet of this most picturesque lake, in his exquisite... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sider
...seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands that together...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.' Of his feminine tenderness of feeling, the fine pastoral of 'Michael'is an example. Space forbids all... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1850 - 340 sider
...present an admirable outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, - with all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." majesty and grandeur. Bold or gentle promontories break all the banks... | |
| 1851 - 704 sider
...southward, the breadth of the lake expands rapidly, and the surface of the water is studded with " All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds." * It was In Qlen Fniiii, or the Qlen of Sorrow, that the celebrated battle took place between the Macgregors... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 sider
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 sider
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 376 sider
...from Georgia's shore ; for, though not upon American savannas, or Canadian lakes — ' With all their fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds ' — yet, amongst the loveliest scenes of sylvan England, and (at intervals)... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sider
...seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening-clouds. And then he said: How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade,... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 476 sider
...local habitation. Wonder not that Scott has inwoven such a rich and weird web of romance around All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. • Well have the people of Edinburgh erected the Gothic monument to Scott—rising so solidly, yet... | |
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