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" The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches bright of bracken green, And heather black, that waved so high, It held the copse in rivalry. "
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 201
by Walter Scott - 1857
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Second Series, Containing The Lay of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 560 pages
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The lady of the lake

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...Highlander calls himself Gael, or Gaul, and terms the Lowlanders, Sassenach, or Saxons. And heather hlack, that waved so high, It held the copse in rivalry....still, Dank osiers fringed the swamp and hill ; And oft hoth path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrent down had horne, And heaped upon the cumhered land...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life

Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches bright of bracken green, lud heather black, that waved so high, t held the copse in rivalry, tut where the lake slept deep and...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak,* With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...hill were torn, Where wintry torrents down had borne, * MS. — " At length thcr paced the mountain's side, And saw beneath the water* wide." « MS. —...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Lowlaoder, SossenocA, or Saxoa. The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...heather black, that waved so high, It held the copse in rivelry. But where the lake slept deep and still, Dank osiers fringed the swamp and hill ; And oft...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Containing Lay of the Last ...

Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...oak, With shingles hare, and cliffs hetween, And patchet hright of hracken green, And heather hlack, that waved sO high, It held the copse in rivalry. But where the lake slept deep and still, Dank ostere fringed the swamp and hill } And oft hoth path and hill were torn. Where wintry torrent down...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...Lowlimder, Sassenach, or Saxon. The ragged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrent down had borne, And heaped upon the cumber'd land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand; So...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors. To ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...fox was trapp'd or slain? The rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches...And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrent down had borne, And heaped upon the cumberM land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand; So toilsome...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors. To ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pages
...rugged mountain's scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliff's between, And patches bright of bracken green, And...And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrent down had borne, And heaped upon the cumber'd land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand; So...
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Reflections on Names and Places in Devonshire ...

Miss Cornish - 1845 - 432 pages
...hardihood against a host. The ragged mountain's scanty cloak, Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, With shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches bright of bracken green. And oft both path and hill were torn, Where wintry torrent down had borne, And heaped upon the cumbered...
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