 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
 | William Wells Brown, William Farmer - 1852 - 354 pages
...author of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," says : — " If them 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." In consequence of this admonition, I was informed that many... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...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 rums gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shaded oriel... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...The Lay of the Last Minstrel." I opened it, and read : "If thou wouldst see fairMelrose 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 oriel... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 326 pages
...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 grey,' &c. " In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...cypress-tree. From the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto II. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...caught the measure wild, DESCRIPTION OF MELKOSE 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 pages
...adversity's night, To suffer and perish alone. 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 oriel... | |
 | Joseph Middleton (barrister.) - 1855 - 290 pages
...truthful, yet hacknied lines of the northern minstrel — " If tbou 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 ruina gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP thou would'st view fair Melroae 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... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 pages
...The author of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel " says : " 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." In consequence of this admonition, I was informed that many... | |
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