 | 398 pages
...excess. 6. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. 7. You have too much respect upon the world. 8. The gay beams of lightsome day gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. See pars. 105 (p. 64), and 187 (p. 99). 320. The subject is called the nominative to the verb... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto II. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild...but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - Authors, Scottish - 1852 - 336 pages
...opening of one of the cantos : " ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins grey,' &c. " In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not be... | |
 | Washington Irving - Prairies - 1865 - 470 pages
...of the cantos : ^ "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, \ Go visit it by the pale moonlight; I For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the ruin could not... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - Authors, Scottish - 1903 - 66 pages
..."The Lay of the Last Minstrel" : — If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; 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 glimmeis white; When the cold... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...MINSTREL, CANTO II. I-l8 ; 70-128 I If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. 5 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 696 pages
...OF THE LAST MINSTREL," CANTO II. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; 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 the cold... | |
 | Rolf Boldrewood - Australian fiction - 1905 - 482 pages
...began with the opening lines :— ' If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild,...but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett - Abbotsford - 1905 - 336 pages
...security of THE ABBEY, MELROSE ' If than would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; 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 the cold... | |
 | WILLIAM SMITH, JR., W.S. CROCKETT - 1905 - 348 pages
...security of THE ABBEY, MELROSE ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; 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 the cold... | |
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If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. 
