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 to live and die ; When distant Tweed is... The Monthly Magazine - Side 4431812Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Clarence Edward Andrews - 1923 - 360 sider
...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 — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. (Lay of the Last... | |
| Walter Scott - 1923 - 824 sider
...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 — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; 2 And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! II... | |
| Benedetto Croce - 1923 - 348 sider
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain power Streams on the ruined centrai tower... Then go — but go alone the while, — Then view St. David's ruin«d pile; And home returuing, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!... Altrettanto superficiale è l'arte dei... | |
| Mrs. Waldo Richards - 1924 - 750 sider
...and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, [ 151 1 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 Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! SIR... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 sider
...And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene* so sad and fair! Short... | |
| Robert Borneman Ludy - 1926 - 578 sider
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ***** 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 lonely pile; And home returning soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. — Sir Walter Scott... | |
| Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 sider
...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 — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! SIR... | |
| 1923 - 850 sider
...Streams on the ruined central tower. 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 fair! . . . The art of his novels is an equally superficial one, as in Ivanhoc, which begins with a journey... | |
| Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 sider
...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 — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! (W. Scott, The Lay... | |
| Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 sider
...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...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! Very noticeable here, and rhetorically effective, is the series of when clauses beginning at the fifth... | |
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