| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 sider
...picture which he presents to the eye: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight: 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 while ; When the cold... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...meet thee no more ! MELROSE ABBEY. Ir thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : 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... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 sider
...which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldsl view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, Aud each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 342 sider
...nostras degcnerasse manus ? LIX. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight ; 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... | |
| Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 sider
...mutilate so beautiful a design. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower •... | |
| 1847 - 582 sider
...of Scott have described it : — " If thon woaldst view fair Melrose aright, Go vieit it by the pale moonlight; 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 sider
...lovely Rosabelle. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild,...but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, O i And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 sider
...mullions entire, and tracery broken. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; 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... | |
| Moon - 1848 - 246 sider
...under my influence. " 'And would'st thou view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by my pale clear light ; 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 my cold... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 sider
...opening of one of the cantos : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the rain could not... | |
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