 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 to live and die ; When distant Tweed is...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 4431812Full view - About this book
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...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 ruined pile! And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" — p. 35, 36. In... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...And the scrolls that teach thee to live and dio 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 ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Wan never scene so sad and fair ! Sui WALTER SCOTT.... | |
 | Literature - 1923 - 850 pages
...Streams on the ruined central tower. 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! . . . The art of his novels is an equally superficial one, as in Ivanhoe, which begins with a journey... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the demi man's g 0. ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair 1 The moon on the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man'» ould endow them with every species of virtue, and free them from e ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so nad and fair ! The moon on the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed \s heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go ! —...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! JAMES MONTGOMERY. JAMES MONTGOMERY is the most popular of the religious poets who have written in... | |
 | John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...imagery, And the scrolls that teach us to live or die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owl to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene, so sad, so fair." Lay of the Last Minstrel. Beneath Dryburgh's sculptured gloom, in the low recess of woods,... | |
 | Aleksander Przezdziecki - Sweden - 1845 - 276 pages
...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...And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene 80 sad and fair! Sin WALTER SCOTT. STATEK parowy między Stockholmcm a Upsalą chodzi ; a!c co za różnica... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...scrolls, bearing appropriate texts of Scripture. Most of these statues have been demolished. Vol.. I. 6 Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile;1 And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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 ! —...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 72 dAMES MONTGOMERY. JAMES MONTGOMERY is the most popular of the religious poets who have written... | |
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