 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the...  The Lay of the Past Minstrel: A Poem in Six Cantos - Side 30af Walter Scott - 1889 - 144 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
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...the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er die dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And,... | |
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...the ruin'd central tower, When huttress and buttress, alternately, •Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the uwlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while— Then view St. David's... | |
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...And the fcrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When diftant Tweed is heard to rave, And the ow let to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the v.-hile — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, foothly fwear, Was never fcene... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 sider
...the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and... | |
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...edges the imagery, And the scrolls, that ttach tlice to live and die; When distant Tweed is hi'ard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go, but go alone the while Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, «oothly swear, Was never scene so sad and... | |
 | 1805 - 752 sider
...ivory ; When filver edges the imagery, And the fciolls that teach thee to live and die ; When diftant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then gor— but go alone the while^ Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, fadly fwear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 sider
...They never wanted beef nor ale As long as their neighbour's lasted. * Kale, Broth. 2 F NOTES CANTO II. When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die. St. I. p. 56. The buttresses ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose, are, according to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 sider
...wanted beef nor ale As long as their neighbour's lasted. • Kale, Brotfc. 2 F NOTES CANTO II. IVTien silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die. St. I. p. 36. The buttresses ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose, are, according to the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 sider
...and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; Wiien distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot...dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 sider
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory j When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thoc to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then pp — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly... | |
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