 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 páginas
...way, we come to Norham Castle, so magnificently described in Marmion. '' Day set on Norham's castle steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, And...keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flunking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone." Nine miles further on, we arrive at "... | |
 | 1847 - 446 páginas
...fortress is thus painted : " Day set on Durham's castle steep, Aud Tweed's fair river, brood iinrl deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers,...keep, The loop-hole grates, where captives weep, The Hanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving... | |
 | 1847 - 436 páginas
...ret on Norham's castle steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lune ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates, where captives weep, The thinking walls that ruuml it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving... | |
 | Frederick Sheldon - 1849 - 490 páginas
...set on Norham's castled steep, On Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The loop-hole grates, where captives weep. The flanking...walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone." How beautifully is the castle described in the opening of Marmion ! What a calm, what a repose is there... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1849 - 184 páginas
...mort for Ireland's freedom ! To horse, my men ! — to horse, and home in silence !" CHAPTER III. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone." , , SCOTT. No farther words were spoken after the last commands of the O'Brien had found their way... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 páginas
...castle is famous in border history, which Scott has beautifully refined in the first canto of Marmion : Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round them sweed, In yellow lustre shone. Near this castle is a beautiful suspension bridge between four... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...beauties. Nothing can be mere strikingly picturesque than the two opening itania* of this romance : — Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captive« weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...Hear then, attentive to my lay, A knightly tale of Albion's elder day* 11 CANTO FIRST, THE CASTLE. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed forms of giant height : Their armor, as it caught the rays, Flashed back again the western blaze?... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 páginas
...the charmed circle of the " Wizard of the North." There was the very castle of which he had written : "Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed forms of giant height ; Their armor, as it caught the rays, Flashed back again the western blaze,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 páginas
...a taste for the picturesque. Take, as a specimen, the opening description in Marmion. THE CASTLE. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone j The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls... | |
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DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. 
