 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 str.
...brightened the scene: frequently we were enveloped in solemn gloom, When the broken arches are as black as night, And each shafted Oriel glimmers white, When the cold light's uncertain show'r, Streams on the min'd central tow'r. Lay of the last Minstrel. 2M CHAPTER XXIV. THE YOUNG CONSCRIPT... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 str.
...OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou wonld'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...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 the cold... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 str.
...again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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 the cold... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 str.
...again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. 1. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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 the cold... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 376 str.
...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...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... | |
 | 1838 - 884 str.
...our opinion, described Abbeys and Cathedrals, within and without, much better than Walter Scott. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the guy beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in... | |
 | 1828 - 454 str.
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 str.
...that Mr. Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the subject of moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou wouldst. view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." &c. We repaired to the cathedral again in the morning. The interior is extremely spacious, and the... | |
 | 1847 - 480 str.
...both in very masterly style. Nor is he less successful with Scott's description of Melrose Abbey. ' If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, visit...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 the cold... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 str.
...that Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the sutyeotHjf ^moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, • Go visit it by the pale moon-light." &c. W<' repaired -tpjlie, cathedral -again ifi'th^- morning. The interior is exfrcfflely ;^pSc^e^s>... | |
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If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. 
