| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 страници
...will not prize ; A contrite heart, a humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. MELROSE ABBEY. IP thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers... | |
| Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 страници
...example, making free use of the four-beat verse among the four-bar verses in their narrative poems; cp. : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to ilout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;... | |
| Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 страници
...Abbey, the "ruin'd pile" which Scott describes most memorably in the first verse-paragraph of Canto II: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day (jild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
| T. R. Malthus - 2004 - 372 страници
...tall rock with lichens grey, / Seem'd dimly huge the dark Abbaye.'; and Canto Second. Stanza 1: "1f thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit...moonlight; / For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild, hut to flout, the ruins grey. / When the broken arches are black in night, / And each shafted oriel... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страници
...the stem joy which warrlors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. 10022 The Lay of the Last Minstrel \ z } - 10023 The Lay of the Last Minstrel They waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. 1 0024 The... | |
| Ina Ferris - 2002 - 223 страници
...ruins by moonlight, and produced probably the most quoted ruin tag in English in the entire century: "If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight.'" 4 The verse that follows the familiar couplet explicitly turns Melrose Abbey from a ruined building... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 страници
...hill, 1817 from The Lay of the Last Minstrel (In each of these passages, the Minstrel sings of himself) CANTO SECOND i If thou would'st view fair Melrose...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... | |
| Helen Groth - 2003 - 266 страници
...lines of Scott's description of Melrose: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by 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... | |
| Michael Alexander - 2007 - 348 страници
...stained glass of Melrose Abbey features earlier in The Lay. Canto II begins with advice to tourists: 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,/ Go visit it by the pale moonlight'. Stained glass is translucent, and the Melrose moonlight casts a light more picturesque than religious:... | |
| Murray Pittock - 2008 - 306 страници
...dead are more powerful than the living. The scene is set in Scottian terms, and Connal even quotes 'If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'. He, Armida, and Wandesford, her English fiance, all visit the island and are nearly drowned on their... | |
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