 | American poetry - 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 gay 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...re«t to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the Ray beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...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...gay 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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...Scott therefore had fewer advantages ; but we do not think that his success has been less remarkable. In the following description of Melrose, which introduces...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...arc the following passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ ; Where to the palm the jasmine cleaves, For Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
 | Literature - 1923 - 850 pages
...remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 'Where the broken arches are blank in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...in the eyes, Pierced the full heart, and forced them still to rise. CRABBE. MELROSE ABBEY AS IT IS. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...picturesque are the following passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} e fountain's murmure, and the vul lev's pride ; Why...think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...N9. 795. NOVEMBER 23™, 1844. PglCB MELROSE ABBEY. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE RUINS. If thon wonldst view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains grey. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...potentate. How does one blast from the clarion of the " romantic " muse proclaim her attributes ! — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of gladsome day Gild but to Hout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are blnck in night, And each shafted... | |
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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. 
