 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 sider
...associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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
...apathy slumbers, — Farewell then, enchantress ! I meet thee no more ! MELROSE ABBEY. Ir thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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
...any NOTE. hand should be found barbarous enough to mutilate so beautiful a design. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...the cold light's uncertain shower • Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 sider
...sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle. MELROSB ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 sider
...Man, After meet rest, again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When... | |
 | George Musgrave Musgrave - 1848 - 326 sider
...beautiful by full moonlight. " For the fair beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, — * * * Then go — but go alone the while." W. SCOTT. Parvis de la Cathedrale. — I have never... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 sider
...sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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 Streams on the ruin'd... | |
 | Moon - 1848 - 246 sider
...ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When my cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined...and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the .scroll* that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to boot... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 sider
...remains, in which is an immense window, with the mullions entire, and tracery broken. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 sider
...one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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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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. 
