 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
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 pages
...establishments 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;...When the broken arches are black in night, And each shaded oriel glimmers white ; When buttress and buttress alternately, Seemed formed of ebon and ivory... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 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... | |
 | John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - 152 pages
...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...each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold lights uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately,... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...girl grew sick, and pin'd away, And drown'd herself for love. MELKOSE ABBEY. SIR WALTER SCOTT. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by 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 cold... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 pages
...subject is a work of art, and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 pages
...is a work of art, and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouklst 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... | |
 | 1822 - 580 pages
...by the pale moon-light; When the broken arches are black in night, Gild but to flout the ruins gray. And each shafted Oriel glimmers white; When the cold...uncertain shower, Streams on the ruin'd central tower, • Seem framed of ebon and ivory, When buttress and buttress alternately, When silver edges the imagery,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...LAY THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY or THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou wouM'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... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1823 - 376 pages
...determined to 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...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray." Accordingly the travellers presented themselves before the Abbey about the same time that William... | |
 | 1823 - 738 pages
...of Sir Walter Scott, and of l)r. Southey, the poet laureat ; and to such measures as these : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's... | |
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