 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - Liczba stron: 422
...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 - Liczba stron: 284
...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 - Liczba stron: 372
...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 - Liczba stron: 686
...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 - Liczba stron: 223
...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 - Liczba stron: 258
...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 aright, Go visit...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 - Liczba stron: 266
...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 - Liczba stron: 348
...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 - Liczba stron: 306
...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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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 ; When silver edges the... 
