 XXVII. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green; No birds, except as birds of passage flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo; No streams, as amber smooth, as amber clear, Were seen to glide,...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Seite 162von Sir Walter Scott - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1876 - 586 Seiten
...description of Famine, a personification which is worthy of Spenser: " Far as the eye could react, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green: The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die; No living thing,... | |
 | John Bell - 1793 - 612 Seiten
...thnn common size, No birds except as birds of passage flew; No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo i No streams, as amber smooth, as amber clear, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here i Rebellion's spring, which thro' the country ran, 305 Furnish'd with bitter draughts the steady clan... | |
 | Joseph Mawman - 1805 - 326 Seiten
...cultivated G2 soft; and apprehended, that Churchill's description of Scotland was about to be verified: " Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, " Earth clad in russet scorn'd the lively green." We were soon, however, agreeably disappointed; for we presently came into finely tilled lands, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 Seiten
...cameleoo, who can feast on air. - XIV. No birds, except as birds of passage, tiew, No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo. No streams as amber smooth,...clear, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here. Rebellion's spring, which through the country ran Furnish'd, with bitter draughts, the steady clan.... | |
 | John Laing (Surgeon) - 1818 - 190 Seiten
...fertile. Neither tree nor shrub is to be seen, except the juniper and heath. Throughout the horrid wild no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. This want of trees and shrubs is the more remarkable, as in different parts of these Islands there... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 Seiten
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleased, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen; Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green: The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die: "No living thing,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 594 Seiten
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd,though hungry, m; her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen; Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die: No living thing,... | |
 | John Laing (Surgeon) - 1822 - 176 Seiten
...fertile. Neither tree nor shrub is to be seen, except the juniper and heath. " Throughout the horrid wild no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green." This want of trees and shrubs is the more remarkable, as in different parts of these islands there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...the caméléon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew, No bee was known ey wait Their wonted fodder ; not like hungering cleti, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here. Rebellion's spring, which through the couotiy*... | |
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