 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5141838Full view - About this book
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...adding the description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...recollect the Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the paie moon-light, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. We saw it by star-light, and then by eun-light. It is worth looking at as a ruin, aside from... | |
 | Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 pages
...persons were present. of If them would'st view fair Mary's aright, .Go view it by the pale moon 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 buttress... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 468 pages
...forcibly reminded of those well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...have undergone, Sir Walter Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 490 pages
...reminded of those well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wooldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 504 pages
...well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wouldst view fair Melrtwe aright, • ' Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...re«t to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the Ray beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...world to converse with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts,... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Go visit it by the pale moon-light; Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the... | |
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