| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 ページ
...and much less beautiful than the far-famed temple of the Sibyl : If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
| John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - 152 ページ
...the beauty and grandeur of the ruins of Meirose Abbey, says—- If thou would st view fair Meirose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
| George Wilkins - 1823 - 376 ページ
...visit this superb ruin according to the recommendation of the poet : " If thou wouldst see 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." Accordingly the travellers presented themselves before... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 ページ
...MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY or THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou wouM'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... | |
| William Thomas Moncrieff - 1824 - 396 ページ
...remarkable ruins, we should say in the words of Scott, — ,Jf thou woulds't view fair " Kenil worth" right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
| sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 ページ
...willow wreaths to stone. Of the whole scene he thus writes : — If thou would'at 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... | |
| James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 ページ
...willow wreattis to stone. Of the whole scene he thus writes : — 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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night, Ami each... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1827 - 416 ページ
...Sir Walter 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 gray. When the broken arches are dark in night, And each... | |
| 1828 - 814 ページ
...feel God, always, every-where, and all in all. ON MELROSE ABBEY. 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 rains gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 ページ
...noble, and friendly in its thoughts and feelings. MELROSE ABBEY. 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... | |
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