 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 2481866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Britton, Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1829 - 368 pagina’s
...has read them in the scroll of ruin, by the pale light of the moon, " When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ,...buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory." 70 EDINBURGH. HERIOT'S HOSPITAL, FROM THE CASTLE HILL. This beautiful structure stands on a rising... | |
 | John Britton - 1829 - 378 pagina’s
...has read them in the scroll of ruin, by the pale light of the moon, " When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the niin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory." •... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pagina’s
...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...• And the scrolls that teach thee to live" and die ; ( i ) When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then... | |
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - 1830 - 250 pagina’s
...For the gny beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the mins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and of ivory ; When... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...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 the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - 1831 - 918 pagina’s
...beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. Whcil the broken arches are black ir; night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white : When...tower. When buttress and buttress alternately Seem Trained of ebon an:! ivory. When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thce to live... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - 1831 - 924 pagina’s
...the gay beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white :...light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central lower. When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory. When silver edges the... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1832 - 388 pagina’s
...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 the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and of ivory ; When... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pagina’s
...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 ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the niin'd central tower; When buttress and buttre-s alternately Sfern framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pagina’s
...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 the cold light's uncertain shower Gleams on the niin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed of ebon and... | |
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