 | Charles Casey - 1852 - 334 sider
...there is as much truth as beauty in Walter Scott's directions for viewing Old Melrose Abbey : — " Then go — but go alone — the while ; Then view...David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, That never was scene so sad, so lair." Not until the fourth day, when I had been on the Canadian side,... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 sider
...that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard 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 ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair! %obe of flatti1t... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sider
...that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard 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 ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly sweur, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Tlie tame. LOVE... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 sider
...that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — but go alone the while...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! THE TURKEY AND THE ANT. IN other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye, Each... | |
 | Joseph Middleton (barrister.) - 1855 - 290 sider
...to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — And view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" What a g-lorious thing is true and genuine poetry ! It fixes like a great and marvellous truth upon... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 sider
...that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard 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 ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! ii. Short halt... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 sider
...And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grare, . Then go — but go alone the while — Then vtew St. David's ruined pile ; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !'' 9 The soul is borne back to distant ages by the sight of this majestic ruin, calling up solemn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard 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 ruin'd pile;11 And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair I _____ i II. '... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 192 MELEOSE ABBEY AS IT WAS. AGAIN on the Knight looked the Churchman old, And again he sighed heavily... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 sider
...that teach thee to live and die; A When distant Tweed is heard 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; B And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Short halt did Deloraine make... | |
| |
Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er... 
