...And, whilst she scratch' d her lover into rest, Sank pleased, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn' d the lively green; The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...

...tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green ; The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die ; No living thing, whatever its food, feasts there, But the cameleon, who can feast on air, No birds, except as birds...

...years later, Churchill showed equal grasp of the subject. He described the face of the country thus : Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen ; Earth,...russet, scorned the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts...

...I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my fortune to entertain. CHAPTER XXVII Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew; No bee was heard to hum, no dove...

...characterizations of Scotland, dispelling the mists from a landscape of sublimely unrelieved barrenness. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of Locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...

...(1763) had been lavish with invective. The Scottish landscape, for instance, had been described thus: Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green: The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper...

...appointed, I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my fortune to entertain. Chapter 10 Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green; No birds, except as birds of passage flew; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo; No streams, as...

...no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet. scorn'd the lively green: The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die ; No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the cameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew; No...

...cultivated 83 soil; and apprehended, that Churchill's description of Scotland was about to be verified: " Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, " Earth clad in russet scorn'd the lively green." We were soon, however, agreeably disappointed; for we presently came into...