...falling sheet of waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and again by beautiful moonlight: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; " — and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually...

...WALTER SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. FROM "THE LAY OF THE LAST MI IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, C,o visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Ciilil, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel...

...though there was no ancient pile of man's rearing to render the hackneyed passage a strict relevancy : " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day Shine but to flout the ruins grey," etc. CHAPTER VIII. A SEAL HUNT, ETC. THE beauties of this part...

...no bad." Melrose. A famous couplet opens the second canto of Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel :" If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. This seems to be a reminiscence of a proverbial phrase which Hazlitt records in his " English Proverbs...

...influenced your mind to wander by moonlight, in dreams. You, of course, remember how it begins ? ' "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." ' ' That may be so,' returned Tom, ' though, as a matter of fact, I recall the circumstance that all...

...sheet of waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and again by beautiful moonlight: " II thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; " — and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually...

...visitors. Sir Walter * Scott sings, in the opening lines of Canto ii of The Lay of the Last Minstrel : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." But it is doubtful whether he ever did lead his visitors to the Abbey at night. Bishop Oxenden, however,...

...soften down the rugged road of life. Kirlce WJiile. MELEOSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melroso aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight. For the gay beams of lightsome dny Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. Scott, Lay, n. 1. MEMORIALS. When all these shining leaves...

...to the grand old Abbey, of which his greater predecessor m fiction and poetry had said— "If thon would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to float, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;...

...one more quotation, even omitting those magnificent lines on Melrose Abbey, commencing with: — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," which displav both eloquence and true poetic genins. I do not believe any poet has ever painted a more...