 ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the...  The Waverley Novels - Pagina 275door Walter Scott - 1855Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1820 - 590 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright ; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the ' shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and ' there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...' to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical super' stition ; for, on the summit of a hillock, so regular as to 'seem artificial, there still remained... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright ; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright ; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pagina’s
...discoloured light., that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood " upright ; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 pagina’s
...illuminated in brilliant patches the portions ' of turf to which they made their way. A con' siderable open space, in the midst of this glade, ' seemed formerly...the ' rites of Druidical superstition ; for, on the sum' mit of a hillock, so regular as to seem artificial, ' there still remained part of a circle of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 304 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...artificial, there still remained part of a circle of roagh unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright: the rest had been dislodged from their... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stooa upright: the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pagina’s
...discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions...of rough unhewn stones of large dimensions. Seven stood upright; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert... | |
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