 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.  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 102edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Craig Brownlee - 1833 - 242 pages
...busy memory,—he leaned on this staff; and yielded himself up to a flood of sorrow ! CHAPTER XIV. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon light; "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers while;" SIR... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...One o'er a flower and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white 3 When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF ihou wouldst view fair ftlelrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight 5 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on (he ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory 3 When... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...One o'er a flower and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. VENICE. :#r When the broken arches arc black in nighi, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 pages
...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOT9FORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...Minsuel's voice began to fail. LonAon; Charles Till, Fleet S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Ley of the Lest Minstrel. If thou wonldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in nigh', And each shafted oriel glimmers white j When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 352 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not be contented... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
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