 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 504 pages
...well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wouldst view fair Melrtwe aright, • ' Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...is obtained from the south-east corner of the churchyard ; but " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...Scott died on the 2Ist of Septemher, I832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrosc aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. 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 rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts,... | |
 | Literature - 1923 - 850 pages
...boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 'Where the broken arches are blank in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ If thou would'st view fair Melrose eaves, For Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...heart, and forced them still to rise. CRABBE. MELROSE ABBEY AS IT IS. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st view fair Melrose ev's pride ; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the...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... | |
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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 gray. 
