...busy memory,—he leaned on this staff; and yielded himself up to a flood of 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...

...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " 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, the ruins gray. When the broken...

...gentlemen who have the slightest pretensions to taste and sentiment commence their sing * from the Lay of the Last Minstrel : — " If thou wouldst view...Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," &c. &c. * To the south-west of Melrose, upon a rising ground nigh to The village of Melrose — the...

...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOTSFORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken...

...coDteuip'e noyées dans le brouillard ou se dégageant sous la paie lumière de la lune : Ifthon -wonldt view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beamsof liglit some day Gi)ii but to flout the rmos grajr (1). Tout cela brillait encore à la fin...

...road." The sketch of Melrose, also, is executed in the most perfect style of the descriptive art : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, bat to flout, the ruins gray. 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 219 When the broken arches are black...

...American cities in the evening is particularly interesting, and .. ' " Would you view Saint Martha right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of garish day Gild, but to flout, the filtKy way" — frequent; the numerous parties of soldiers marching...

...favourable for enjoying its beauties ; nor should the tourist forget the poet's injunction, — " If thrm wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light. The small town of Melrose contains nothing of interest to the stranger, only that its commodious inn...

...Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. Ir thou would'st view fair Melrose injV. Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to Bout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in niycfc, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;...

...literary men have undergone, Sir Walter Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When...