 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...took place. LESSON LVII. Melrose Abbey. THIS is a fine old ruin of an ancient Abbey in Scotland. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins THE SET OF DIAMONDS. 137 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
 | 1840 - 594 pages
...continued. MEMOIRS OF AN ITALIAN " And tell of all I felt, of all I saw." CHAPTER I. Love and moonlight. " If thou would'st 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... | |
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...merely adding the description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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 - 1841 - 848 pages
...of ttjr ftajlt fSLlnttrtl CANTO SECOND. IF thon would'st view fair Melrosc aright,1 Go visit it I iy ay, ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | 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... | |
 | American poetry - 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...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 the cold... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 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...the gay 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... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 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...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... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 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...the gay 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... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 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 ;...the gay 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... | |
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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. 
