 | 1832 - 206 pages
...courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew . E'en the slight...Hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : — " For me," she stooped, and looking round, Plucked a blue Hare-bell from the ground ; 131 " For... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1832 - 448 pages
...elastic scape. Thus Scott says of the Lady of the Lake ; " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight...hare-bell raised its head Elastic, from her airy tread." The flower which we term the hare-bell is the Campanula rotundifolia ; this is very common near water-falls,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 pages
...pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'ei from the heath-flower dashed the dew; F.'en the alight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread...accents of the mountain tongue,— Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear. The listener held his breath to hear XIX. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid,... | |
 | William Baxter - 1834 - 348 pages
...veins.' " SCOTT also describes it as slight and elastic : ' A foot more light, a step more true, ' Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; ' E'en the...hare-bell raised its head, ' Elastic from her airy tread.' — Lady of the Lake, Canto i. " Again, Forme, — shestoop'd and, looking round, Pluck 'da blue hare-bell... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell rais'd its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though...accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds, so soft, so -clear, The list'ner held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter scem'd the maid ;... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...poet of the Romantic school: " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." In recognising these verses as a portion of Scott's beautiful portrait of the " Lady of the Lake,"... | |
 | Ann Fraser Tytler - 1838 - 354 pages
...courtly grace, To measured mood had trained her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight...accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear." Florence's early love of poetry had been implanted... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...courtly grace To measured mood had trained ho- pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight...accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'oer held his breath to hear. XIX. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...had train 'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head,...speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — Whose silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear. XIX. A Chieftain's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight hare-hell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What...accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his hreath to hear. CANTO I.) XIX. A chieftain's daughter seemed... | |
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E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. 
