Description of the Abbeys of Melrose and Old Melrose, with Their Traditions |
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... pillars , the variety of its sculpture , the beauty of its stones , and the symmetry of its parts . Its length is two hundred and fifty- eight feet ; its breadth one hundred and thirty- seven feet and an half ; its circumference nine ...
... pillars , the variety of its sculpture , the beauty of its stones , and the symmetry of its parts . Its length is two hundred and fifty- eight feet ; its breadth one hundred and thirty- seven feet and an half ; its circumference nine ...
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... pillars on the other side through their bars . In the end of the north nave are the remains of the treasury , which joins to the church with a saxon door , that leads into the church with a stair , the remains of which are still to be ...
... pillars on the other side through their bars . In the end of the north nave are the remains of the treasury , which joins to the church with a saxon door , that leads into the church with a stair , the remains of which are still to be ...
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... pillars that went round the whole open cloister ; and above these are four very plain small Gothic windows . I have now passed the angle to the long nave of the cross , continuing on to the west with the remains of the cloister . In the ...
... pillars that went round the whole open cloister ; and above these are four very plain small Gothic windows . I have now passed the angle to the long nave of the cross , continuing on to the west with the remains of the cloister . In the ...
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... pillars of the former were seen about the year 1730 . On the north side of this house there had been an oratory , or private chapel , the foundation of which was discovered about the same year , and a large cistern of stone , with a ...
... pillars of the former were seen about the year 1730 . On the north side of this house there had been an oratory , or private chapel , the foundation of which was discovered about the same year , and a large cistern of stone , with a ...
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... pillars , nigh the dome , there has been a wall eight feet high , which went from pillar to pillar , the inside of which might have been employed as a vault to bury the dead ; it is supposed that the gallery above the wall contained the ...
... pillars , nigh the dome , there has been a wall eight feet high , which went from pillar to pillar , the inside of which might have been employed as a vault to bury the dead ; it is supposed that the gallery above the wall contained the ...
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abbot of Melrose adjoining Alexander altar ancient Andrew anno appears arches arms bars battle beautiful beholder belonging betwixt Bishop Boisil breadth building built buried buttress Cairncross centre Cessford chalders chapel charter church cloister Colmsly convent cross Darnick David died Douglas Dryburgh Earl east Edinburgh eight Eildon hills English erected feet finished following inscription four Galashiels Gattonside Gothic pointed granted ground head Holy Island honour hundred Hytons inches Jedburgh John John Morvo Kelso Kers King James King of Scotland King Robert land Leader water likewise Lord Melrose Abbey Melrose Parish Milne Milne's Hist Milne's History monastery monks monks of Melrose Morvo mullions nave niches Old Melrose pedestal pillars pinnacles place called Pringle quath remains Ridpath's Border river Tweed ruins Sainct Scotland Scots shield small aisle souls St Cuthbert stone tomb tower town trancept Tweed village Waldevus wall William window
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Page 29 - 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...
Page 73 - 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 the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 70 - Loved the church so well, and gave so largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; but all things have their end : Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
Page 29 - 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 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 — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!
Page 70 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 86 - ... the empty halls, And piecemeal crumble down the tow'rs to dust. Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tower, That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks, Half hid in grass, the solitary fox ; While from above, the owl, musician dire ! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stand. Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year...
Page 25 - Fair Maiden LILLIARD lies under this Stane, Little was her Stature, but great her Fame, On the English Lads she laid many Thumps, And when her Legs were off, she fought upon her Stumps.
Page 44 - Turn your back to the building, stoop down, and look at it through your legs, when the effect is astonishingly grand, the defects of the ruin being but little perceived, as the whole assumes such a beautiful appearance as may be more easily conceived than expressed.
Page 65 - They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars, lofty, and light, and small ; The key-stone, that locked each ribbed aisle, Was a...
Page 125 - Brae, where Thomas the Rhymer and the Queen of the Fairies frequently met, according to tradition. A little to the east of this is the trysting-tree stone." Mr Gray expressed his opinion that the place referred to must be the field or bank, adjoining what is called the Gallows Hill, but he was as yet unable to find the faintest tradition of the place having borne this name. Subsequently however he writes (8th Nov. 1875) : " I am happy to say that I have...