| Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 páginas
...PIECES, NOT CONTAINED IN ANY FORMER EDITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS. PHAROS LOQUITUR.1 FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. LINES,3 ADDRESSED TO RANALD MACDONALD, ESQ., OF STAFFA. STAFFA, sprung from high Macdonald, Worthy... | |
| Angus - 1843 - 368 páginas
...Walter, at the request of the party, inscribed his name in the album, with the following verses : — " Pharos loquitur. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." crament was administered, some hundreds of the parishioners sat on an eminence about... | |
| John Smeaton - 1844 - 144 páginas
...bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail1.' THE most celebrated lighthouse in Scotland is that situated on the dangerous reef called the... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1845 - 572 páginas
...in the Album kept by this lighthouse, on his visit to it in the year 1815 : PHAEOS LOQUITUB. Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail. t Fifteen miles north-west of Arbroath lies Forfar, the county town. It is a burgh of... | |
| 1845 - 1270 páginas
...edifice, in his visit to it in the year 1814. " Pharos loquitur." " Far in the bosom of the deep, On these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." Each of the Northern Light-houses is furnished with a barometer, thermometer, and rain-guage, and observations... | |
| 1873 - 744 páginas
...the following beautiful lines, in which he makes the lighthouse thus speak of itself: — " Far on the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." X. SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. LITTLE boy, when only a few years old, was one day playing... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 páginas
...safe she trips the heathy brae, Shall hang on Arthur's arm. THE END OF TRIERMAIW. ' PHAROS LOQUITUR.1 FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...hail, • And scorns to strike his timorous sail. LINES,2 ADDRESSED TO RANALD MACDONALD, ESQ., OF STAFFA. STAFFA, sprung from high Macdonald, Worthy... | |
| Robert Southey - 1850 - 390 páginas
...may perhaps be reminded of Sir Walter Scott's beautiful impromptu on a similar subject: — " PHAROB loquitur. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail." Lockhart's Life of Scott, vol. ii. p. 184. the stage-coaches : the glass enabled him to find out that... | |
| Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1855 - 800 páginas
...the bosom of the deep O'erthesewild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound in the dusky brow of night. The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. E. 9 HYMN, FATHER of all ! thy matchless power All things created prove ; But here we meet, and raise... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1849 - 194 páginas
...always prav, " God, 0 make us children good!" THE KnmsTOSR IJGHTHOUSK. Page" THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, — The seaman bids thy lustre hail. And scorns to strike his timorous sail. SIR WALTER SCOTT. ABOUT fourteen miles from... | |
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