 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2481866Full view - About this book
 | 1805 - 948 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 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... | |
 | 1812 - 762 pages
...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout, the ruins grjy ; When the broken arches are black insight, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold...uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower, When huttress and buttress, alternately, •Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 pages
...wanted beef nor ale As long as their neighbour's lasted. • Kale, Brotfc. 2 F NOTES CANTO II. IVTien silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die. St. I. p. 36. The buttresses ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose, are, according to the... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...the gay 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 light's uncertnin shower Streams on the ruined central towsr ; When butlresaand buttress, alicrnately, Seem... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately,...imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; Wiien distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go —... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray. 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 4 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of. ebon and ivory.; When... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...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 j When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thoc to live and die ; When distant Tweed... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pages
...brightened the scene: frequently we were enveloped in solemn gloom, When the broken arches are as black as night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white, When the cold light's uncertain show'r, Streams on the min'd central tow'r. Lay of the last Minstrel. 2M CHAPTER XXIV. THE YOUNG CONSCRIPT... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pages
...brightened the scene: frequently we were enveloped in solemn gloom, When the broken arches are as black as night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white, When the cold light's uncertain show'r, Streams on the ruin'd eentrul tow'r. Lay of the last MinstrelCHAPTER XXIV. THE YOUNG CONSCRIPT... | |
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