 DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 111808Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 732 pages
...deficient, The very firft . )ines of the poem prefent a rich and beautiful piftuie. " Day fet on Norhain's caftled fteep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep,...The flanking walls that round it fweep, . In yellow hiflrc (hone. 1 . '* The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening iky, Seem'd forms... | |
 | 1808 - 728 pages
...firft Jine» of the poem prefent a rich and beautiful pi&ure. '' Day fet on Norham'« caftled ftetp, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...flanking walls that round it fweep, In yellow luftre ftiene, " The warriors on the turrets high, _ • Moving athwart the evening flcy, Secm'd forms of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...MARMION. CANTO FIRST. C&e Castle, MARMION. CANTO FIRST. Cfre Caarte. I. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. • The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky,... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...The opening stanzas of the whole poem contain a good picture. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriours on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...The opening stanzas of the whole poem contain a good picture. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flanking Avails that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriours on the turrets high, „ Moving athwart... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...MARMION. CANTO FIRST. Clje Castle. MARMION. CANTO FIRST. Castle. I. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flanking walb that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...MARMION CANTO FIRST. Clje Castle. MARMION. CANTO FIRST. Castle. I. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Margaret Roberts - 1815 - 226 pages
...to be entering e Norham's castled steep.' Look, Julia, look, Edmund, there are ' The battled tower, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, , The flanking walls that round it sweep.' " " And here are the captives," said Edmund laughing. Ellen approached the spot, where some... | |
 | George Isham Parkyns - 1816 - 522 pages
...conjure up that sort of imagery so well expressed by a modern poet: Day tet upon the coaled steep; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd... | |
 | George Isham Parkyns - 1816 - 240 pages
...that sort of imagery so well expressed by a modern poet: Day tet upon the castled steep; The banted towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In jellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd... | |
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