 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun. One burnish'd sheet of living... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...pathway meets tin- wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with fooling nice, A far-projecting precipice. (4) The broom's tough roots his ladder made. The hazel saplings lent their nid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming wiih the sotting sun, One buruish'd sheet of living... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won. Where, gleaming with the setting sun, Dne burnish'd sheet of living... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far- projecting precipice. (4) The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting suu, One burnish 'd sheet of living... | |
 | 1837 - 366 pages
...was myself the adventurous huntsman, who climbed, " With footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point is won, When, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold,... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb with footing nice Some far projecting precipice ; The broom's tough roots his ladder made — The hazel saplings lent their aid." Here every rock has its echo, every grove is vocal with the harmony of birds, or the songs of women... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice.4 cott ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting gun, One burnish'd sheet of living... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far-projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid ; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnish'd sheet of living... | |
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And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's ken. Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid... 
