 Hundreds of broad-headed, shortstemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were intermingled with...  Waverley Novels ...: Ivanhoe - Page 25by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 588 pages
...delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copeswood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to...long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the ey« ^ delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms ' over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; ' * in some places they were intermingled with beeches, '...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan ' solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken ' and discoloured light, that partially... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...closely as totally to intercept the level beams of die sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the... | |
 | 1820 - 760 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...and copsewood, of various descriptions so closely as to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung... | |
 | david william - 1820 - 562 pages
...to intercept the level teams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from- each other, farming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light., that partially... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pages
...soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies,...itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to vet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light,... | |
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