 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
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. 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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 pages
...that I must also be gone. Look at the night-scene : " If thou wonld'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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 pages
...ought to be visited only in the dusk of the evening." " If thou woulds't 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." * To West, 174o. f To Mrs. Dorothy Gray, 174o. In 1765 Gray... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pages
...poem, show Scott's descriptive powers at their best : — " 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, MELROSE ABBEY FROM THE SOUTHEAST. When the broken arches are... | |
 | John Ebenezer Bryant - 1899 - 328 pages
...poem, show Scott's descriptive powers at their best : — " 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, MELROSE ABBEY FROM THE SOUTHEAST. When the broken arches are... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 pages
...Broth. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. L thou would'st view fair Jtfelrose aright,1 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 - 1900 - 410 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," etc. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 pages
...which the royal and majestic ruin should be seen — 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... | |
 | Edward T. Clarke - 1901 - 330 pages
...would have been equally applicable to Bermondsey : " If thou wouldst view St. Saviour's aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, its ruins gray ; When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 480 pages
...expressions enforce the fundamental quality or image ? I. If them 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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