 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 páginas
...ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ;t When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ;t And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair I H. Short halt... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 páginas
...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...owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 páginas
...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...owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave. Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 páginas
...buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory 3 When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls lhat teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is...owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 páginas
...alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that leach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard...owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 páginas
...the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 páginas
...And the scrolls that teach thce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the howlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. * * • * By a steel-clench 'd postern door, They enter'd now the chancel tall ; The darken'd roof... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 páginas
...alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach tbee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The... | |
 | 1838 - 938 páginas
...the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly brings before us an image which should have... | |
 | 1838 - 876 páginas
...When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and die ; When distant Tweed ia heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly brings before us an image which should have... | |
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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... 
