 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...  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Page 481by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...of ttjr ftajlt fSLlnttrtl CANTO SECOND. IF thon would'st view fair Melrosc aright,1 Go visit it I iy ay, grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...recollect the Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the paie moon-light, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. We saw it by star-light, and then by eun-light. It is worth looking at as a ruin, aside from the romance... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1842 - 468 pages
...was forcibly reminded of those well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pages
...cloister. The best view of the Abbey is obtained from the south-east corner of the churchyard ; but " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 480 pages
...literary men have undergone, Sir Walter Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1842 - 490 pages
...reminded of those well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wooldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1842 - 504 pages
...well-known beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If tbou wouldst view fair Melrtwe aright, • ' Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;...of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey, where all that there is of mortal... | |
 | 1842 - 504 pages
...Scott died on the 2Ist of Septemher, I832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrosc aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1951 - 1116 pages
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