 | 1923 - 850 ページ
...orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 'Where the broken arches are blank in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 ページ
...to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ If thou would'st view fair smine cleaves, For Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Lady Frances Winckley Shelley - 1913 - 464 ページ
...relic of a bygone age, I could not help thinking of the poet's lines l : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...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... | |
 | Alma Blount - 1914 - 406 ページ
...compare these lines from Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, published in 1805. If them would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight,...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... | |
 | Richard Henry Spencer - 1914 - 250 ページ
...enshrouded in ivy, Sir Walter Scott often lingered and mused awhile. •'if thou would•st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light;...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... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1914 - 474 ページ
...THE PLAZA1 (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1864) (After Sir Walter Scott) IF thou wouldst view the Plaza aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Show that the fountain does not play. When the broken benches are hid in shade, With many a vagrant... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1914 - 488 ページ
...THE PLAZA1 (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFOBNIA, 1864) (After Sir Walter Scott) IF thou wouldst view the Plaza aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Show that the fountain does not play. When the broken benches are hid in shade, With many a vagrant... | |
 | Keith Clark - 1916 - 506 ページ
...there was a budding morrow in this midnight — I remembered the lines — "If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1917 - 1000 ページ
...Encourag'd thus, the aged man, After meet rest, again began. Canto Second. IP thou would"st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncêrtainshower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem... | |
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When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory... 
