 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pagine
...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 the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 pagine
...— " 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 arches are black in night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white: When the cold... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pagine
...perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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 be contented... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pagine
...perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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 be contented... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 262 pagine
...perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldstview fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight; For the...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 ruin could not... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pagine
...Charles Till, Fleet S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pagine
...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 moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in nigh', And each shafted oriel glimmers white j When the cold... | |
 | 1835 - 746 pagine
...sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos. " If thou would' st view Melrose aright, Go, visit it at pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devont pilgrims to the ruin would not be contented... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1835 - 578 pagine
...— " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOTSFORD. 77 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 the cold... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 308 pagine
...Borough-Conan : Conan probably signifying, royal or chief. MELROSE ABBEY. " If them wouUUt view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." SCOTT. [Мопачегу, Vol. I. p. 12«. " As, strong in his feelings of duty, Father Eustace... | |
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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... 
