 | Robert Buchanan - 1859 - Počet stránok 506
...in reference to one of the ancient haunts of monkery in Scotland — " If you would see fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." In proceeding from Mar-Saba to the Dead Sea, we had to go back for about a mile and a half by the way... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - Počet stránok 336
...WALTER'S directions, she had gone at night. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." And she had seen Abbotsford, " that romance of stone and mortar," and Dryburgh, and had visited Sir... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - Počet stránok 306
...turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. MELROSE. IF thou would'st 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... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 382
...moonlight." Here I paused, when a clear voice near me, but from an invisible source, continued, • " For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." Advancing a step, I saw standing in the deep recess of the doorway the figure of an aged man. I could... | |
 | Sir William Crookes, George Wharton Simpson - 1860 - Počet stránok 858
...architectural skill. Л\ге are told by Scott, that whoever " Would view fair Melrose aright, Should visit it by the pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome (.lay Gild but to flout the ruins grey." But failing the opportunity of seeing the ruins of Melrose... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - Počet stránok 438
...in vain ; And this is all that our watcher said. FRANCES BROWN. IF t IK iu wouldst 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - Počet stránok 626
...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. i MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou would'st 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... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - Počet stránok 480
...Minstrel" are the well-known ones in which the tourist who would see fair Melrose right is counselled to " visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey." I knew all Scott's best poetry by heart when I was a boy, and these lines had, I remember, an... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - Počet stránok 246
...see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Hen Jonson, MELROSE. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, those ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - Počet stránok 706
...thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP 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 Bout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white... | |
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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. 
