 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 pages
...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...alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! 216 SELECT MOTTOES AND IMAGES.... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...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...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." " The darkened roof... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1848 - 772 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die;1 When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, 1 The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to the Gothic... | |
 | Moon - 1848 - 246 pages
....scroll* that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to boot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — To view St. David's ruined pile .' " . "I see the whale sport on Greenland's coast, and the flying... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! SELECT MOTTOES AND IMAGES. REMORSE — she ne'er forsakes us — A bloodhound stanch — she tracks... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...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...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." The general dissolution... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 pages
...Melrose Abbey by moonlight : the petition was good-naturedly granted ; but instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear ' Was never scene so sad and fair ! " the poet had penned this... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 pages
...Melrose Abbey by moonlight : the petition was good-naturedly granted ; but instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! " the poet had penned this amusing... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 562 pages
...instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! " the poet had penned this amusing variation, Then go — and meditate with awe On scenes the author... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...stone-work - - tracer. 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...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile': And, home returning, eoothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! Scott's Lay of the... | |
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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... 
