...passage in " the Lay" 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...

...THIS is a fine old ruin 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,...

...felt, of all I saw." 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...

...Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. ' 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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted...

...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 gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel...

...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 gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted...

...beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wooldst 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. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey,...

...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 gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic...

...instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go ; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted...

...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 gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted...