 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldsl 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, Aud each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 pages
...heart, a humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. MELROSE ABBEY. IP 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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...Farewell then, enchantress ! I meet thee no more ! MELROSE ABBEY. Ir 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... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 pages
...should be found barbarous enough to mutilate so beautiful a design. " 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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...well-known lines of Scott have described it : — " If thon woaldst view fair Melrose aright, Go vieit 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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...an immense window, with the mullions entire, and tracery broken. " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1848 - 772 pages
...rest, again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle. 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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night, O i And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the... | |
 | Moon - 1848 - 246 pages
...under my influence. " 'And would'st thou view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by my pale clear light ; 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 my cold... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1849 - 390 pages
...perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : " 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," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
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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. 
