 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
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pagina’s
...to 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. Jttelrosa. Si vis Melrosam, quam sit formosa, tueri, I, pete cum ocelo paluda luna nitet... | |
 | Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 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...soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The eastern window of this venerable pile, than which it is impossible to conceive a more beautiful specimen... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 pagina’s
...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 ;...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 216 SELECT MOTTOES AND IMAGES. REMORSE — she ne'er forsakes us — A bloodhound stanch — she... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pagina’s
...of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, O i And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! SELECT MOTTOES AND IMAGES. REMORSE — she ne'er forsakes us — A bloodhound stanch — she tracks... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 pagina’s
...owlet to 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." " The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars, lofty, and light, and small ; The keystone, that locked each... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 pagina’s
...Melrose Abbey by moonlight : the petition was good-naturedly granted ; but instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! " the poet had penned this amusing variation, Then go — and meditate with awe On scenes the author never... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 pagina’s
...Melrose Abbey by moonlight : the petition was good-naturedly granted ; but instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....soothly swear ' Was never scene so sad and fair ! " the poet had penned this amusing variation, Then go — and meditate with awe On scenes the author never... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pagina’s
...owlet to hoot oe'r 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." The general dissolution of the English monasteries took place, as we all know, in the reign of Henry VIII.... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1850 - 432 pagina’s
...Melrose Abbey by moonlight: the petition was good-naturedly granted ; but instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair !" the poet had penned this amusing variation, Then go — and meditate with awe On scenes the author never... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pagina’s
...And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's gr»vt, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view Saint 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: With dagger's hilt,... | |
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