 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
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 396 pages
...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 gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...the edifices of any land."— Gazetteer of Scotland. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...the aged man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO II. I. Ir 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...enstom of Branksome Hall. MELROSE ABBEY. — CANTO IL If thon wonld'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bnt to flont, the rnins gray. When the broken arehes are blaek in night, And eaeh shafted... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...through the slit in tJie rind. DE. BREWEB. MELEOSE ABBEY. " IP 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... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...can number their array. CHAPTER XXXVII. MELKOSE ABBEY, IF thou \vouldst 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 - 1851 - 398 pages
...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 gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...the LATEST MIUSTBIL sung. DESCRIPTION OP MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrosc 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... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 pages
...that I must also be gone. Look at the night-scene: " 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... | |
 | 1851 - 704 pages
...(W. Tait, Esq.) But, in the words of Sir W. Scott, " 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... | |
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