 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...  The lay of the last minstrel, a poem - Страница 44по sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1842 - 480 страници
...hoot 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 ! » * * * The pillar'd arches were over their head, And beneath their feet were the bones of the Spreading... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 страници
...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...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! BATTLE OF BEAL' AN DUINE. From THE LADY OF THK LAKE. THE Minstrel came once more to view The eastern... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 страници
...When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and dle;a When distant Tweed ia heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grava, Then go— hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pilei't' And, home returning,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 страници
...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...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, (CANTO n.) MELROSE ABBEY AS IT WAS. AGAIN on the Knight looked... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 страници
...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...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" — p. 35, 36. In the following passage he is less ambitious ; and confines himself, as an ancient... | |
 | 1844 - 288 страници
...ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and dio When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot...David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Wan never scene so sad and fair ! Sui WALTER SCOTT. Lag of the Lait Minttrtl. IN a beautiful vale on... | |
 | 1866 - 956 страници
...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...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 sentiment soon,... | |
 | 1923 - 850 страници
...shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain power Streams on the ruined central tower. Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! . . . The art of his novels is an equally superficial one, as in Ivanhoe, which begins with a journey... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страници
...and ivory ; When silver edge« the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When may be the consequence of such a miraculous transformation of mank man'» grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When dish`0. demi man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home... | |
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