 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 páginas
...of ebon and ivory: When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and (fie-j When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 páginas
...the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; I ruin'd pile ;' And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt... | |
 | 1841 - 240 páginas
...scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant tweed is heard to rave. And the how let to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but...pile ; And home returning, soothly swear Was never seen so sad and fair. By a steel clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darken'd... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 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...— 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 ! " Within the Abbey... | |
 | 1842 - 480 páginas
...on 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...— 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... | |
 | 1842 - 504 páginas
...alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...— 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... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 páginas
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...the ruined 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 ! 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 páginas
...the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...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... | |
 | 1866 - 956 páginas
...on 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...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,... | |
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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... 
