| 1866 - 956 頁
...potentate. How does one blast from the clarion of the " romantic " muse proclaim her attributes ! — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of gladsome day Gild but to Hout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are blnck in night, And each shafted... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 頁
...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...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 頁
...in stall : — Sneh was the enstom of Branksome Hall. MELROSE ABBEY. — CANTO IL If thon wonld'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bnt to flont, the rnins gray. When the broken arehes are blaek in night, And eaeh shafted oriel glimmers... | |
| 1852 - 782 頁
...of sentimental associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : " If thou 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 頁
...longed the rest to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began, CANTO SECOND. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of ligiitsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
| 1852 - 782 頁
...»id of sentimental associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye: " If thou wouldst view fair .Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For ihe gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black... | |
| 1852 - 710 頁
...Prior Bank (W. Tait, Esq.) But, in the words of Sir W. Scott, " If thou would'st view fair Mel rose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day (4ild, but to Bout, the ruins grey. When tho broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1854 - 468 頁
...as the northern Magician has sung of the celebrated abbey in his native land, in these lines : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight."* Adjoining the little village of Kilgarran was the resi* It is said that the great painter Wilson has... | |
| Joseph Middleton (barrister.) - 1855 - 290 頁
...almost involuntarily to repeat those truthful, yet hacknied lines of the northern minstrel — " If tbou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruina gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
| 1855 - 594 頁
...occurs perhaps the most poetically beautiful description Sir Walter Scoit ever wrote, beginning — If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Though, strange to say, the author himself (according to Sir T. Dick Lauder) never did visit the abbey... | |
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