 | 1833 - 372 sider
...ABBEY. BY DELLA CRUSCA. If them wouldst view fair Mclrose aright, G« visit it by the pale moon's light, For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins grey. SIR WALTER SCOTT. FAIR Abbey, thou art beautiful ! Though time's strong hand hath torn The deckings... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - 1833 - 242 sider
...sorrow ! CHAPTER XIV. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon light; "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers while;" SIR WALTER SCOTT. Master James, meantime, had placed himself opposite the middle tower of the... | |
 | Mr. Forsyth - 1833 - 354 sider
...aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flaunt the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shatter oriel glimmers white : VOL. I. 15 When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams in the ruined... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 418 sider
...aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flaunt the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafter oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower, Streams in the ruined central... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 sider
...The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white 3 When the cold... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 sider
...The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. VENICE. :#r When the broken arches arc black in nighi, And each shafted oriel glimmers white... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 sider
...brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrosc arigiit, Go visit it by ihe pale moonlight j For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 sider
...— " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOT9FORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white: When the cold... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 sider
...brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF ihou wouldst view fair ftlelrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight 5 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 sider
...that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight...lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not be contented... | |
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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... 
