 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 pàgines
...will not prize ; A contrite heart, a humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. MELROSE ABBEY. IP thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...feeling in apathy slumbers, — Farewell then, enchantress ! I meet thee no more ! MELROSE ABBEY. Ir thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pàgines
...associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldsl view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, Aud each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 pàgines
...indignation that any NOTE. hand should be found barbarous enough to mutilate so beautiful a design. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 pàgines
...to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 pàgines
...knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle. MELROSB ABBEY. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pàgines
...knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, O i And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 pàgines
...of the choir remains, in which is an immense window, with the mullions entire, and tracery broken. " If thou wouldst 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 396 pàgines
...the poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 pàgines
...the poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the rain could not... | |
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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... 
