 Highland song would suffer still more from my imperfect translation, were 1 to introduce it without its own wild and appropriate accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret...  Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ... - Seite 165von Walter Scott - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 310 Seiten
...accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in...the desert better than the festivity of the hall.' Flora had exchanged the measured and monotonous recitative of the bard for a lofty and uncommon Highhmd... | |
 | 1882 - 224 Seiten
...have already,' replied the maiden with dignity, ' said that the seat of the Celtic muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who wooes her must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the descrt better... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 Seiten
...accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist * y I- 0g v ] $ k o G D Cx! 2 V7Q I ^5$S) R 5 f ċ ...{ j / J ]6 ȁ D crb R| 5 x\e1x ږ t rG aʮ & moke this declaration, with a voice where harmony was exalted by pathos, without exclaiming that the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 Seiten
...ein He who woos her must love the barren rock i than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the d better than the festivity of the hall." Few could have heard this lovely woman r this declaration, with a voice where harmony exalted by pathos, without exclaiming that the i whom... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 710 Seiten
...mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who wooes her must love the barren rock more than the fertile...the desert better than the festivity of the hall." * The description of the waterfall mentioned in this chapter is taken from that of Ledeard, at the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 716 Seiten
...accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who wooes her must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 712 Seiten
...'accompaniment». To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat ofthe Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the. murmur of the mountain stream. He who woqs her must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 Seiten
...the poetical language of my country, the scat of the Celtic Muse is in tlie mist of the secret aud solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who wooes her must lovo the barren rock more than tlie fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 704 Seiten
...accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Qcluc Muse is in tue mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in...stream. He who woos her must love the barren rock mor« than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert belter than the festivity of the hall."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 Seiten
...accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who wooes her must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better... | |
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