 | 1842 - 480 pàgines
...undergone, Sir Walter Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1842 - 504 pàgines
...well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wouldst view fair Melrtwe aright, • ' Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | 1842 - 504 pàgines
...Scott died on the 2Ist of Septemher, I832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrosc aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pàgines
...hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the Ray beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pàgines
...world to converse with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts, and interwoven... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pàgines
...the gay heams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the hroken archea ;ir- hlack in night) And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When...uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pàgines
...associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...following passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st ure, and the vul lev's pride ; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | 1923 - 850 pàgines
...carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 'Where the broken arches are blank in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pàgines
...N9. 795. NOVEMBER 23™, 1844. PglCB MELROSE ABBEY. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE RUINS. If thon wonldst view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains grey. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
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IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 
