| Alex McCallum - 1912 - 228 trang
...to the Rock, " Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! " On the hills of Braid, where Johnnie of Braidislee once hunted the dun deer, the city golfers in... | |
| Alfred H. Hyatt - 1913 - 492 trang
...clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
| Chartered Insurance Institute - 1919 - 404 trang
...clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! EDINBURGH AS AN INSURANCE CENTRE. Edinburgh is famous not only for its beauty, but as a great Educational... | |
| Mrs. Alexander Lawson, Alexander Lawson - 1920 - 310 trang
...clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 896 trang
...clothed the height Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they... | |
| David Watson Rannie - 1926 - 424 trang
...clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state. And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays And as each heathy top they... | |
| 1860 - 964 trang
...clothe the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And nH tho steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! ' And that's Liberton, where Mr. Butler in the Heart of Mid Lothian was Dominie. And yonder's Burdie... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 602 trang
...clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down. Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town!" 2. Quotation unidentified. 3. Bryant refers to what was known as the Maynooth Grant of 1845 (see below).... | |
| Jon Stallworthy - 1974 - 356 trang
...clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state. And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, MINE OWN ROMANTIC TOWN! Yonder the shores of Fife you saw; Here Preston-Bay and Berwick-Law; And, broad between them rolled,... | |
| Richard Rodger - 2004 - 566 trang
...which Scott's own words were reproduced in The Builder m 1865: The height, Where the castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy hack...and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town. 45 In the 1840s, the completion of the Scott memorial (1844) coincided with the entrancement of Queen... | |
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