 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
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 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!" — p. 35, 36. In the following passage he is less ambitious ; and confines himself, as an ancient... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 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 ! SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, (CANTO n.) MELROSE ABBEY AS IT WAS. AGAIN on the Knight looked... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...hoot o'er the demi man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined `0. 1 The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...When silver edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed \s heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! JAMES MONTGOMERY. JAMES MONTGOMERY is the most popular of the religious poets who have written in... | |
 | John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pagina’s
...imagery, And the scrolls that teach us to live or die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owl to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene, so sad, so fair." Lay of the Last Minstrel. Beneath Dryburgh's sculptured gloom, in the low recess of woods,... | |
 | Aleksander Przezdziecki - 1845 - 276 pagina’s
...When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — bnt go alone the while — Then view St- David's ruin'd...And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene 80 sad and fair! Sin WALTER SCOTT. STATEK parowy między Stockholmcm a Upsalą chodzi ; a!c co za różnica... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 pagina’s
...been demolished. Vol.. I. 6 Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile;1 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 : With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 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...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 72 dAMES MONTGOMERY. JAMES MONTGOMERY is the most popular of the religious poets who have written... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 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. Scott. LX. ANTHOLOGIA OXONIENSIS. Si vis Melrosam, quam sit formosa, tueri, I, pete cum coclo pallida... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 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 ! TIME. [From " The Antiquary."] WHY sitt'st thou by that ruined hall, Thou aged cade so stern and... | |
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