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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 ; When silver edges... "
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 36
by Walter Scott - 1805 - 319 pages
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 25

1805 - 948 pages
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er die dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And,...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 33

Art - 1812 - 762 pages
...shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower, When buttress and buttress, alternately, •Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach i.iee to live acd die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the uwlet to boot o'er the dead man's...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 6

1805 - 540 pages
...And the fcrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When diftant Tweed is heard to rave, And the ow let to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the v.-hile — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, foothly fwear, Was never fcene...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 26

1805 - 752 pages
...ivory ; When filver edges the imagery, And the fciolls that teach thee to live and die ; When diftant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then gor— but go alone the while^ Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, fadly fwear,...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...light's uncertnin shower Streams on the ruined central towsr ; When butlresaand buttress, alicrnately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory, When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls, that ttach tlice to live and die; When distant Tweed is hi'ard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory j When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thoc to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then pp — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower 4 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee tolive and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o>r the dead mun's grave...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...surer cdfje* the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live .•md (lie ; When distant Tweed i» heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's ((Tuve ; Then jco— but go r.lonethe while"— Ilien view Saiiit Unvid'a ruined pil«, And, IIOIIM;...
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The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbour's lasted. * Kale, Broth. NOTES TO CANTO II. Note I. When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die. — P. 44. The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,...
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