 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...One o'er a flower and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. VENICE. :#r When the broken arches arc black in nighi, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...One o'er a flower and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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 3 When... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1834 - 286 pages
...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOT9FORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...Minsuel's voice began to fail. LonAon; Charles Till, Fleet S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford - 1835 - 352 pages
...poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Ley of the Lest Minstrel. If thou wonldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in nigh', And each shafted oriel glimmers white j When... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford - 1835 - 262 pages
...passage that perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : — " If thou wouldstview fair Melrose aright, Go, visit it by the pale moonlight;...gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray,-" &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could... | |
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IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 
