| Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pągines
...road." The sketch of Melrose, also, is executed in the most perfect style of the descriptive art : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bat to flout, the ruins gray. 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 219 When the broken arches are black... | |
| 1838 - 938 pągines
...opinion, described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much better than Walter Scott. " If Ihou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
| 708 pągines
...specimen of his critical acumen. A celebrated passage in " the Lay" meets with his disapproval : — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white." " The second couplet," quoth Christie, " has no business there — omit these two lines, and you will... | |
| 1838 - 876 pągines
...in our opinion described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much belter than Walter Scott. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches arc black in night And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pągines
...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to Bout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in niycfc, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold...central tower: When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory: When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pągines
...took place. LESSON LVII. Melrose Abbey. THIS is a fine old ruin of an ancient Abbey in Scotland. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins THE SET OF DIAMONDS. 137 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
| 1840 - 594 pągines
...continued. MEMOIRS OF AN ITALIAN " And tell of all I felt, of all I saw." CHAPTER I. Love and moonlight. " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
| 1841 - 240 pągines
...merely adding the description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pągines
...of ttjr ftajlt fSLlnttrtl CANTO SECOND. IF thon would'st view fair Melrosc aright,1 Go visit it I iy ay, ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pągines
...cloister. The best view of the Abbey is obtained from the south-east corner of the churchyard ; but " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
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