 | 1812 - Počet stránok 762
...the first stanza of the second canto, the poet finely observes : " Ir'thou would'st view fa:r Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, did but to flout, the ruins gr-y ; When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
 | 1805 - Počet stránok 570
...as the work which it pourtraysj If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pal ц moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey, When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - Počet stránok 796
...sublime, will be charmed with his description of Mel rose abbey. If thou wonldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For 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... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 454
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - Počet stránok 538
...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; .For the...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... | |
 | John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - Počet stránok 152
...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - Počet stránok 582
...and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For 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... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1823 - Počet stránok 376
...visit this superb ruin according to the recommendation of the poet : " If thou wouldst see fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray." Accordingly the travellers presented themselves before the Abbey about the same time that William of... | |
 | William Thomas Moncrieff - 1824 - Počet stránok 396
...remarkable ruins, we should say in the words of Scott, — ,Jf thou woulds't view fair " Kenil worth" right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - Počet stránok 408
...willow wreaths to stone. Of the whole scene he thus writes : — If thou would'at view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; 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 wouldst 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. 
