 | Thomas Moule - 1834 - 382 str.
...picturesque village of Melrose, and the Abbots' Law, or Court Mount, between the town and the river Tweed. Melrose Abbey, it is well known, affords the...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. A very beautiful extract from the Lay of the Last Minstrel, relative to this abbey, has been quoted... | |
 | William Westall, Thomas Moule - 1834 - 454 str.
...picturesque village of Melrose, and the Abbots' Law, or Court Mount, between the town and the river Tweed. Melrose Abbey, it is well known, affords the...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. A very beautiful extract from the Lay of the Last Minstrel, relative 44 GREAT BRITAIN ILLUSTRATED.... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 str.
...built, though it has resisted the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Kerrs, pursued the chase fiercely, till, at the bottom of a steep path, Elliot of Stobs turned and... | |
 | 1851 - 704 str.
...built, though it has resisted the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The other buildings being completely destroyed, the ruins of the church alone remain to attest the ancient... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Charles Black - 1859 - 834 str.
...architecture in Scotland. The stone of which it is built retains perfect sharpness, so that many of the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The only part of this celebrated monastery remaining is the church, which is in the usual form of a Latin... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 str.
...it is built, though exposed to the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Abbey is the theme of a poem by Arthur Hallam, who dwells especially on its resistance to decay, and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 str.
...it is boilt, though exposed to the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Abbey is the theme of a poem by Arthur Hallam, who dwells especially on its resistance to decay, and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 str.
...it is built, though exposed to the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Abbey is the theme of a poem by Arthur Hallam, who dwells especially on its resistance to decay, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 str.
...it is built, though exposed to the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Abbey is the theme of a poem by Arthur Hallam, who dwells especially on its resistance to decay, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 630 str.
...it is built, though exposed to the weather for so many ages, retains perfect sharpness, so that even the most minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. The Abbey is the theme of a poem by Arthur Hallam, who dwells especially on its resistance to decay, and... | |
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... rebuilt by Robert Bruce, cruelly defaced at the Reformation, but still remains one of the noblest and most interesting specimens of Gothic sculpture and architecture in Scotland. The stone of which it is built, though exposed to the weather for so... 