| Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 pages
...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet and many a saint, XI. Whose image on the glass... | |
| 1806 - 502 pages
...tracery combined; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1807 - 354 pages
...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! . XI. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 pages
...Cordelia, the projections from which the arches spring, usually cut into a fantastic face or mask. Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint Whose image on the glass was... | |
| Joshua E. White - 1816 - 382 pages
...fairy's hand., 'Twist poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twin'd; Then form'da spell, when the work, was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was... | |
| 1838 - 884 pages
...shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "I" \vi\t poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...was done, And changed the willow -wreaths to stone." Sir Walter says in a note, that it is impossible to conceive a more beautiful specimen of the lightness... | |
| Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...foliaged tracery comhined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint Whose image on the glass was... | |
| James Duncan - 1820 - 250 pages
...Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's band "Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand, In many a frrakUi knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto II. St. 10. Roslin was the scene of much bloodshed, in former times;... | |
| George Wilkins - 1823 - 376 pages
...foliaged tracery combined ; One would have thought some fairy hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' " " Here," said Duncan, stamping his foot upon a large flag-stone, " here ' A Scottish monarch sleeps... | |
| George Wilkins - 1824 - 298 pages
...poet's description !— ' The moon on the eastern orial shone Thro' slender shafts of shapely stone, In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone."" By foliaged tracery combined; One would have thought some fairy hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier... | |
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