 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 ページ
...MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. TIIE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Mclrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 ページ
...example, making free use of the four-beat verse among the four-bar verses in their narrative poems; cp. : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to ilout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 ページ
...Abbey, the "ruin'd pile" which Scott describes most memorably in the first verse-paragraph of Canto II: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day (jild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
 | T. R. Malthus - 2004 - 372 ページ
...tall rock with lichens grey, / Seem'd dimly huge the dark Abbaye.'; and Canto Second. Stanza 1: "1f thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit...moonlight; / For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild, hut to flout, the ruins grey. / When the broken arches are black in night, / And each shafted oriel... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 ページ
...the stem joy which warrlors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. 10022 The Lay of the Last Minstrel \ z } - 10023 The Lay of the Last Minstrel They waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. 1 0024 The... | |
 | Ina Ferris - 2002 - 223 ページ
...ruins by moonlight, and produced probably the most quoted ruin tag in English in the entire century: "If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight.'" 4 The verse that follows the familiar couplet explicitly turns Melrose Abbey from a ruined building... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 ページ
...hill, 1817 from The Lay of the Last Minstrel (In each of these passages, the Minstrel sings of himself) CANTO SECOND i If thou would'st view fair Melrose...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout, the ruins grey, When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Helen Groth - 2003 - 266 ページ
...lines of Scott's description of Melrose: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by 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 glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Michael Alexander - 2007 - 348 ページ
...stained glass of Melrose Abbey features earlier in The Lay. Canto II begins with advice to tourists: 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,/ Go visit it by the pale moonlight'. Stained glass is translucent, and the Melrose moonlight casts a light more picturesque than religious:... | |
 | Murray Pittock - 2008 - 306 ページ
...dead are more powerful than the living. The scene is set in Scottian terms, and Connal even quotes 'If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'. He, Armida, and Wandesford, her English fiance, all visit the island and are nearly drowned on their... | |
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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. 
