...very great, and their situation remarkably beautiful." But this is in prose : let us hear the poet:— "The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks that bear the vine; And hills all rich with...

...inspector Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone, The greatest number flesh hath ever known. (2) (1) I" The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine," &e. — See ante. Vol. VIII. p. 156.] (2) St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still extant...

...inspector Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone, The greatest number flesh hath ever known. (2) (1) [" The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine," &c, — See anti, Vol. VIII. p. 156.] (2) St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still extant...

...even in its ruins to load nine hundred camels. vol.. 11. u THE DRACHENFELS. Droum by JMW Turner. RA " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...

...UL'i.iv- 1 !.' . Í ! A8TOR, LENOX ANO TIUOE.N FOUNDATICN8. THE DRACHENFELS. Drawn by IMW Turner, RA " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...

...cemented more By peril, dreaded most in female eyes ; But this was firm, and from a foreign shore LV. The castled crag of Drachenfels (') Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...

...Perhaps the most beautiful description of the Rhinish scenery, is contained in the following lines. " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells, Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills ail rich with...

...have done. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, LORD BYRON, Born 1788, died 1824. [From "Childe Harold," Canto III.] THE castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...

...DRACHENFELS (Dragon Rock), whose precipices rise abruptly from the river side, crowned with a ruin. " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...

...a copy of Childe Harold ; and, as we were sweeping past the Drachenfels, I opened to the passage, " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine." • It was a beautifully bound volume; and, when pointed out for her perusal, she was in raptures immediately,...