 O'er airy steep, through copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun. There the rapt poet's step may rove, And yield the muse the day ; There Beauty, led by timid Love, May shun the tell-tale ray; From that fair dome, where suit is paid By blast of bugle free,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 257edited by - 1803Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1901 - 518 pages
...bugle free,1 To Auchendinny's hazel shade, And haunted Woodhouselee. " Who knows not Melville's beeehy grove, And Roslin's rocky glen ; Dalkeith, which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden ? " 2 Another verse reminds us that " There the rapt poet's step may rove ; " — and it was amidst... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1902 - 428 pages
...suit is paid, By blast of bugle free, To Auchendinny's hazel glade, And haunted Woodhouselee. XVIII Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden ? XIX Yet never a path, from day to day, The pilgrim's footsteps range, A woeful place was that, I... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1902 - 554 pages
...where suit a paid By blast of bugle free,1 To Auchendinny's hazel shade, And haunted Woodhonselee. " Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden ? " " Another verse reminds us that " There the rapt poet's step may rove ; " — and it was amidst... | |
 | Dugald Butler - 1903 - 648 pages
...passed his ministry there, and Scott has commemorated the neighbourhood in one of his stanzas : — "Who knows not Melville's beechy grove And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden ? " Newbattle Abbey to-day is simply a large and commodious building with a castellated front. The... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1904 - 398 pages
...fancy still survives, — Her sunshine plays upon thee." CHAPTER VIII. IN TENEBRIS LUX. 1S91-1904. " Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...; Dalkeith which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthomden ? " — SCOTT. "The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern ; and there... | |
 | W. T. Fyfe - 1906 - 358 pages
...results, with the noble families of Melville and Buccleuch, both of whom have castles in the same valley.' 'Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden ?' It is of the Esk that he says in the same poem, The Grey Brother, ' Thro ' woods more fair no stream... | |
 | John Charles Carrick - 1907 - 336 pages
...where suit is paid, By blast of bugle free, To Auchendinny's hazel shade, And haunted Woodhouselea. Who knows not Melville's beechy grove And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden. But so far as Newbattle is concerned, besides often visiting its churchyard, — famous through Old... | |
 | Katharine Burrill - 1907 - 252 pages
...entirely thrown away. I was once driving with two or three modern maidens in Scott country, near " Melville's beechy grove And Roslin's rocky glen Dalkeith,...which all the Virtues love, And classic Hawthornden," and they informed me, "No one thinks of reading Scott nowadays, he is so dull and long-winded." That... | |
 | 1910 - 1042 pages
...sweet By Eske's fair stream that run, O'er airy steep, through copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun. Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden?" —Scott. MELROSE South of Edinburgh and at a greater distance lies Melrose, a beloved shrine visited... | |
 | 1910 - 1016 pages
...sweet By Eske's fair stream that run, O'er airy steep, through copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun. Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's...which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden?" — Scott. MELROSE South of Edinburgh and at a greater distance lies Melrose, a beloved shrine visited... | |
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