 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 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, sooibly swear, LOVE OF COUNTRY. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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 ! SIR W. SCOTT. CHAPTER... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 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 grave : Then go — but go alone the while — And view St. David's rained pile." MELBOSE is a town in Scotland, on the river Tweed, thirty five... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 704 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 grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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 grave, Then RO — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 318 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 !" There •was no bright moon, but there was a soft... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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! %obe of flatti1t... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlei to hoot o'er the de«d man'« grave ; Then go! — but go alone the while — Then...view St. David's ruined pile! And. home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" -pp. 35, 36. In the following passage he is less... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's gravef Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile: And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked... | |
 | Charles Casey - United States - 1852 - 334 pages
...there is as much truth as beauty in Walter Scott's directions for viewing Old Melrose Abbey : — " Then go — but go alone — the while ; Then view St. David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, That never was scene so sad, so lair." Not until the fourth day, when I had been on... | |
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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... 
