 | George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 308 páginas
...calls it Borough-Conan : Conan probably signifying, royal or chief. MELROSE ABBEY. " If them wouUUt view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray." SCOTT. [Мопачегу, Vol. I. p. 12«. " As, strong in his feelings of duty, Father Eustace approached... | |
 | Louis Désiré Véron - 1836 - 738 páginas
...coDteuip'e noyées dans le brouillard ou se dégageant sous la paie lumière de la lune : Ifthon -wonldt view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beamsof liglit some day Gi)ii but to flout the rmos grajr (1). Tout cela brillait encore à la fin... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 236 páginas
...favourable for enjoying its beauties ; nor should the tourist forget the poet's injunction, — " If thrm wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light. The small town of Melrose contains nothing of interest to the stranger, only that its commodious inn... | |
 | 1837 - 372 páginas
...American cities in the evening is particularly interesting, and .. ' " Would you view Saint Martha right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of garish day Gild, but to flout, the filtKy way" — frequent; the numerous parties of soldiers marching... | |
 | 708 páginas
...specimen of his critical acumen. A celebrated passage in " the Lay" meets with his disapproval : — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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." " The second... | |
 | 1838 - 876 páginas
...in our opinion described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much belter than Walter Scott. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches arc black in night And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | 1838 - 938 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 páginas
...Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. Ir thou would'st view fair Melrose injV. Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay 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;... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 páginas
...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... | |
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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 ; When silver edges the... 
