 | 1828 - 454 sider
...1828. CratolUr. ULSOSE ABBEY AND THE EILDON HILLS. » If thou woaldst view fair Melrose right, Co rtalt it by the pale moonlight , For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray-" — Scott. TO TBS EDITOR. Jra,— Who has perused the works of the celebrated iv: of my motto, and... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 sider
...Mr. Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the subject of moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou wouldst. view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." &c. We repaired to the cathedral again in the morning. The interior is extremely spacious, and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 sider
...For the gay heams of lightsome day Gild hut to flout the ruins gray. When the hroken arches are hlack in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 sider
...that Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the sutyeotHjf ^moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, • Go visit it by the pale moon-light." &c. W<' repaired -tpjlie, cathedral -again ifi'th^- morning. The interior is exfrcfflely ;^pSc^e^s>... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 sider
...establishments in Scotland. You remember Walter Scott's lines upon this abbey: " If thou wonldst \iew fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins grey. . , When the broken arches are black in night, And each shaded oriel glimmers white ; When buttress... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 sider
...tlie ruins gray. When the broken arches are blank in -night, And euch sJiafted oriel glimmers wliite ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower • ff'hen buttress and buttress , alternately , Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges... | |
 | 1822 - 418 sider
...the girl grew sick, and pin'd away, And drown'd herself for love. MELKOSE ABBEY. SIR WALTER SCOTT. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seems fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 584 sider
...is a work of art, and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouklst 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 silver... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 sider
...yet the subject is a work of art, and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - 152 sider
...the beauty and grandeur of the ruins of Meirose Abbey, says—- If thou would st view fair Meirose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...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... | |
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IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 
