...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...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver...

...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...beams 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...

...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...

...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...beams 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...

...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 ;...beams 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...

...the gay beams of lightsome day Go visit it by the pale moon-light; Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When silver edges the imagery, When distant Tweed...

...world to converse with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts,...

...the gay heams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the hroken archea ;ir- hlack in night) And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When...uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And...

...sentimental associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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...

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