 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...road." The sketch of Melrose, also, is executed in the most perfect style of the descriptive art : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bat to flout, the ruins gray. 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 219 When the broken arches are black... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1837 - 372 pages
...American cities in the evening is particularly interesting, and .. ' " Would you view Saint Martha right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of garish day Gild, but to flout, the filtKy way" — frequent; the numerous parties of soldiers marching... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...favourable for enjoying its beauties ; nor should the tourist forget the poet's injunction, — " If thrm wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light. The small town of Melrose contains nothing of interest to the stranger, only that its commodious inn... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...in our opinion described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much belter than Walter Scott. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight ; 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... | |
 | 708 pages
...specimen of his critical acumen. A celebrated passage in " the Lay" meets with his disapproval : — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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."... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...opinion, described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much better than Walter Scott. " If Ihou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the...; 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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. Ir thou would'st view fair Melrose injV. Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to Bout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in niycfc, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;... | |
 | 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...; For the 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... | |
 | 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...; For 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... | |
 | 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...; 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... | |
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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. 
