 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...thou wonidst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." The owl, also, was formerly supposed to destroy infants. " Striges," remarks Lavaterus, " as they saye,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 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." " The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars, lofty,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 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 ! SELECT MOTTOES... | |
 | Moon - 1848 - 246 pages
....scroll* that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to boot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — To view St. David's ruined pile .' " . "I see the whale sport on Greenland's coast, and the flying... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1848 - 772 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die;1 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... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 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 oe'r the dead man's...view St. David's ruined pile. And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." The general dissolution of the English monasteries... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 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, eoothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto II.). MELROSE... | |
 | Staffa - 1850 - 186 pages
...edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant sea is heard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...grave; Then go— but go alone the while — Then view lona's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair.' The Chapter-house... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the serolls that teaeh thee 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 rnin'd pile ;'* And, home retnrning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; Wien distant Tweed is heard citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was be soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair t The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender... | |
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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... 
