 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford - 1835 - 262 pages
...opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldstview fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray,-" &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1835 - 578 pages
...— " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOTSFORD. 77 For the gay 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... | |
 | Henry Belcher (of Whitby.) - 1836 - 164 pages
...himself delighted with the scene. — But the evening and moonlight effects are undoubtedly the finest, " When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white," When we may hear the "Owlet hoot o'er the dead man's grave," and the low murmur of the waves beneath, forming... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - Engraving, English - 1836 - 308 pages
...signifying, royal or chief. MELROSE ABBEY. " If them wouUUt view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." SCOTT. [Мопачегу, Vol. I. p. 12«. " As, strong in his feelings of duty, Father Eustace... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...much better than Walter Scott. " If Ihou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild,...but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
 | 708 pages
...meets with his disapproval : — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild...but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white." " The second couplet," quoth Christie,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...of an ancient Abbey in Scotland. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins THE SET OF DIAMONDS. 137 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
 | 1840 - 594 pages
...CHAPTER I. Love and moonlight. " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...ftajlt fSLlnttrtl CANTO SECOND. IF thon would'st view fair Melrosc aright,1 Go visit it I iy the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild,...but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
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If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. 
