 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 5101838Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou wonld'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. 1. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...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... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 376 pages
...to ilelrcse la} ing aside the locality of the Tweed. " If thou wouldst view fsir ileliosc arjgbt, " Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; « 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... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...opinion, described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much better than Walter Scott. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the guy beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the subject of moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou wouldst. view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." &c. We repaired to the cathedral again in the morning. The interior is extremely spacious, and the... | |
 | 1847 - 480 pages
...very masterly style. Nor is he less successful with Scott's description of Melrose Abbey. ' If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 324 pages
...For the gay heams of lightsome day Gild hut to flout the ruins gray. When the hroken arches are hlack in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 380 pages
...Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the sutyeotHjf ^moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, • Go visit it by the pale moon-light." &c. W<' repaired -tpjlie, cathedral -again ifi'th^- morning. The interior is exfrcfflely ;^pSc^e^s>... | |
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