...executed in the most perfect style of the descriptive art : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale 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...

...celebrated passage in " the Lay" meets with his disapproval : — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white." " The second couplet," quoth Christie, " has no business there — omit these two lines, and you will...

...and Cathedrals, within and without, much belter than Walter Scott. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches arc black in night And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams...

...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;...

...Melrose Abbey. THIS is a fine old ruin of an ancient Abbey in Scotland. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins THE SET OF DIAMONDS. 137 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers...

...tell of all I felt, of all I saw." CHAPTER I. Love and moonlight. " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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 the cold...

...Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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...

...recollect the Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the paie moon-light, For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. We saw it by star-light, and then by eun-light. It is worth looking at as a ruin, aside from...

...persons were present. of If them would'st view fair Mary's aright, .Go view it by the pale moon light ; (For 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 buttress...