 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die: ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go —...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 2481866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 ;...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair 1 264. LOVE OF COUNTRY. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pagina’s
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair 1 Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair : With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Mathieu Orsini - 1864 - 890 pagina’s
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! " (Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto ii.) (1) There is still extant a treaty of peace between two hostile... | |
 | 1865 - 550 pagina’s
...For the gay beams of gladsome day Gild but to flout tho ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When...been ashamed to own that a mediaeval work of art, as such—a poem, a picture, a relic, a building, a chronicle of past days—exercised no more spell over... | |
 | 1865 - 550 pagina’s
...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go ; but go alone the while, Then view St. JJavid's ruin'd pile, And home returning, soothly swear Was...picture, a relic, a building, a chronicle of past days — exorcised no more spell over him than the yellow cowslip did over the rude soul of Peter Bell ?... | |
 | James Parton - 1885 - 382 pagina’s
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! " No doubt, Sir Walter was right, and beautiful Melrose is far more impressive when the sounds of... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pagina’s
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave ;... then go — but go alone the while — then view St. David's mined pile ; and, home returning, soothly swear, was never scene so sad and fair I 78.— HAPPINESS.—fle&er. One morning in the month of May I wandered o'er the hill ; Though nature... | |
 | J. Brown - 1885 - 324 pagina’s
...Fair Melrose ': — 294 ' If thou wouldst view Roche Abbey aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! ' There are also scenes worth the attention of the naturalist and the painter. The immense strata... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 154 pagina’s
...singular of the noun ; and whilom = formerly, the old dative plural. 16. St David's ruined pile. During And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair i With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 214 pagina’s
...to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — 15 Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little reck'd he of the scene so fair ; 20 With dagger's... | |
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