 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 imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Side 2311805Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sider
...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 the dead man's...— 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
...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 the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! THE TURKEY AND THE ANT. IN other men we faults can... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 sider
...imagery, And ihe scrolls that leach ihce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And ihe owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go ! — but go alone the «bile — Then view St. David's ruined pile ! And, home returning, soothly swear, Wns never scene... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 406 sider
...criticized Walter Scott's moonlight description in the lines which say, — s " The distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." "We hear nothing of the Tweed, at any rate," said we; "that must be a poetic license." But now at midnight,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 398 sider
...criticized Walter Scott's moonlight description in the lines which say, — " The distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." "We hear nothing of the Tweed, at any rate," said we ; "that must be a poetic license." But now at... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 sider
...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 the dead man's...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... | |
 | Joseph Middleton (barrister.) - 1855 - 290 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 sider
...edges the imagery, A»l the scrolls 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 — Tb«D view St. David's ruiu'd pile ;" And. borne returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...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 the dead man's...— 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
...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 the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile : And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 192 MELEOSE ABBEY AS IT WAS. AGAIN on the Knight looked... | |
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