| 1829 - 572 páginas
...Walter Scott describes this window, and the effect of moonlight upon it, in the following lines: — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's bud Twixt poplars straight, the osier... | |
| 1829 - 740 páginas
...around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And thus he describes the foliaged window : " Thou would'st have thought some Fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier hand In many a freakish knot had twin'd, Then fram'da spell when the work was done, And chang'd the... | |
| William Pulleyn - 1830 - 402 páginas
...pew, marked with a diagonal line, is shewn as the place of their interment. In Old English Characters. The moon on the East oriel shone, through slender shafts of shapely stone, The silver light, so pale and faint, shewed the twin sisters and many a saint, Whose images on the... | |
| 1830 - 194 páginas
...of shapely stone; By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand "J'wixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work was done,. And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light,... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 386 páginas
...posterity in those exquisite lines of the last and greatest of minstrels, in his description of Melrose. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the... | |
| Jacob Green - 1831 - 298 páginas
...Walter Scott describes this window, and the effect of moonlight upon it, in the following lines: — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 400 páginas
...of Melrose. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed... | |
| Thomas Allen - 1832 - 356 páginas
...imagination. Sir Walter Scott, in describing a night scene in Melrose Abbey, thus alludes to this theory : — "The moon on the east Oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 páginas
...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale !§ O fading honours of the dead ! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely Btone, of armes by hut dedea ; he bnro always of usage three fethered dartea, and rychte well ho could... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 páginas
...With base and capital furnish'd around, Secm'd bundies of lances which garlands had bound. * * » * The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldat have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the... | |
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