 | Aleksander Przezdziecki - Sweden - 1845 - 276 pages
...silver edges the imagery. And the serolls that teach tbee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — bnt go alone the while — Then view St- David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...edges the infagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ;' When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, 1 The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to the Gothic... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...silver edges the imagery, Aud the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile ! And, home returning, sootb.lv swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" — p. 35, 36. In the following passage he is less... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Scott. LX. Jttelrosa. Si vis Melrosam, quam sit formosa,... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 340 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Scott. 8l vis Melrosam, quam sit Formosa, tueri, I,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! TIME. [From " The Antiquary."] WHY sitt'st thou by... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...silver edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ! And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 72 dAMES MONTGOMERY.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...edges the imagery, 364 And ihe scrolls lhal leach thee to live and die ; W hen distant Tweed ii heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave Then po! — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ! Arnl. hume returning, soothly... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene «о sad and fair !" Dryburgh abbey, a picturesque and lovely ruin,... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The eastern window... | |
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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 imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee... 
