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" 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... "
The Pamphleteer - Page 19
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The Waverley Anecdotes: Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and ...

Walter Scott - 1833 - 418 pages
...action and emphasis, the following well-known lines of the poet of Abbotsford :ā€” " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flaunt the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafter oriel glimmers white...
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The Waverley Anecdotes: Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and ...

Walter Scott - 1833 - 412 pages
...action and emphasis, the following well-known lines of the poet of Abbotsford:ā€” " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flaunt the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shatter oriel glimmers white...
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The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical ..., Volume 1

William Craig Brownlee - 1833 - 242 pages
...sorrow ! CHAPTER XIV. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon light; "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers while;" SIR WALTER SCOTT. Master James, meantime, had placed himself opposite the middle tower of the...
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The Border Magazine, Volume 2

1833 - 372 pages
...ABBEY. BY DELLA CRUSCA. If them wouldst view fair Mclrose aright, GĀ« visit it by the pale moon's light, For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins grey. SIR WALTER SCOTT. FAIR Abbey, thou art beautiful ! Though time's strong hand hath torn The deckings...
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The Every Day Book for Youth

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white 3 When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress...
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The Every Day Book for Youth

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrosc arigiit, Go visit it by ihe pale moonlight j For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout...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...
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Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 pages
...ā€” " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOT9FORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout,...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...
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The Every Day Book for Youth

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF ihou wouldst view fair ftlelrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight 5 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on (he ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory 3 When...
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The Every Day Book for Youth

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...and leaf; The other over hopes and joys, Whose beauty was as brief. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray. VENICE. :#r When the broken arches arc black in nighi, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When...
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The lay of the last minstrel. Illustr. ed

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...fail. LonAon; Charles Till, Fleet S THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When...
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