 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...1771-1832. (Manual, pp. 401-422.) FROM "THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.' 263. DESCRIPTION OF MELROSE ARBEY. If thou wouldst 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...longed the rest to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. X. IF thou would'st 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 ; When the cold... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...of sentimental associations to heighten the erTecl of the picture which he presents to the eye : " If tho'u wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shaded oriel glimmers white ; When the... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - Europe - 1866 - 830 pages
...obedience to the following poetic direction of Sir WALTER SCOTT, in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey," We obtained the Abbey keys and returned to view its Ruins at 10 o'clock in the evening, by the... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...their titles and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame. MELROSE ABBEY. Shakspeare. 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, When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...longed the rest to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CAKTO SECOND. I 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 whito ; When the cold... | |
 | Alexander Murray (publisher.) - Scotland - 1866 - 468 pages
...Lay of the Last Minstrel,' by Sir W. Scott, are these fine lines on the ruined Abbey of Melrose:— ' If thou would'st 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; When the cold... | |
 | Wallace Bruce - 1893 - 292 pages
...which perplexed him sadly, the familiar opening of the second canto : — Landmarks of Scott. 167 " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey." " In consequence of this admonition many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not be... | |
 | Calendar - Calendars - 1893 - 414 pages
...rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. From The Lay of the Last Minstrel. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The bard may draw his parting groan. MELROSE ABBEY. IF tin .u wouldst view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the...the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black In nigh And each shafted oriel glimmers white: When the cold light's uncertain shov • Streams on the... | |
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IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. 
