 IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-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 the cold light's...  The Photographic News - Page 135edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. 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 ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...Scott has given of it in his Ley of the Lest Minstrel. If thou wonldst 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 dark in nigh', And each shafted oriel... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pages
...sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " 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," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...Fleet S THE LAY OF 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 262 pages
...sadly. It was the 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... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " 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," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 374 pages
...probably signifying, royal or chief. 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 ruins gray." SCOTT. [Mon»<tery, Vol. tp 12*. " As, strong in his feelings... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pages
...the most perfect style of the descriptive art : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bat to flout, the ruins gray. 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 219 When the broken arches... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...Cathedrals, within and without, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. Ir thou would'st view fair Melrose injV. Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to Bout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in niycfc, And each shafted... | |
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