 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 頁
...to see the abbey. Every one who has read the ' Lay ' remembers the opening of the second canto — ' If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.' Now I have so often heard it confidently asserted that the author of those lines never visited Melrose... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 頁
...trump, and horn. But Thou hast said : ' The blood of goat, Are mine accepted sacrifice.' MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day When the broken arches are black in night, Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. And each shafted oriel... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 頁
...tale of great beauty; and his prose works possess a distinctive and peculiar merit.] MELROSE ABBEY. JF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of gladsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1872 - 250 頁
...signified by ' it :' ' bring the light, put it on the table;' 'I went to the river, it was swollen.' If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight. d.) This may be taken as the primary and ordinary meaning • it ' as the demonstrative neuter pronoun.... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1872 - 310 頁
...holidays, gone expressly to see the ruins of Melrose, tempted thither by those lines of Scott, — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." But the night chosen « for the visit was cloudy, and the moon, which, according to the almanac, ought... | |
 | George W. Pine - 1873 - 534 頁
...which, when viewed in the distance, are remarkable imitations of magnificent works of art in ruins : "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Soon after the great moon rose over the eastern mountains, we came to the ruins. Here may be seen the... | |
 | Frederick Meyrick - 1873 - 178 頁
...the meaning of protasis and apodosis, and show how Rule LXXIL is illustrated in the following : — If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. If the flower wither, I am worse than dead. If ever in temptation strong Thou leftst the right path... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1873 - 334 頁
...southeast of the building, where he would repeat the familiar lines of Sir Walter Scott, — " If them wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," and bid his companions mark the simple beauty of this unassuming structure. The first sermon after... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 頁
...SCOTT. 1771-1832. Such is the custom of Branksome-Hall. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto i. St. vii. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Canto ii. St. I. O fading honours of the dead ! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 1 was... | |
 | Loretta J. Post - 1874 - 368 頁
...transept are covered only by the blue sky, and at night studded with stars. Scott truly says: '• If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." ABBOTSFORD. 143 From Melrose is but a short ride over to Abbotsford. The driver pointed out a fine... | |
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IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray. 
