 If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.  What I Remember - Page 203by Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1889 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1805 - 948 pages
...never, never be forgot WILLIAM of DELORAIX£, [From the same.] I. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...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 light's... | |
 | Art - 1812 - 762 pages
...the first stanza of the second canto, the poet finely observes : " Ir'thou would'st view fa:r Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, did but to flout, the ruins gr-y ; When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the...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 light's... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...as the work which it pourtraysj If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pal ц moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey, When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...and sublime, will be charmed with his description of Melrose abbey. If thou wonHst View fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...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 light's... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...sublime, will be charmed with his description of Mel rose abbey. If thou wonldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rums gray. When the 'broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the...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 light's... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. 1. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the...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 light's... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 376 pages
...to ilelrcse la} ing aside the locality of the Tweed. " If thou wouldst view fsir ileliosc arjgbt, " Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; « For the gay...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... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...1828. CratolUr. ULSOSE ABBEY AND THE EILDON HILLS. » If thou woaldst view fair Melrose right, Co rtalt it by the pale moonlight , For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray-" — Scott. TO TBS EDITOR. Jra,— Who has perused the works of the celebrated iv: of my motto, and... | |
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