 | 1805 - 948 sidor
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er die dead man's grave ; Then go —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 sidor
...beautiful monastery of Melrose was founded by King David I. Its ruins afford the finest specimen of Gothic architecture, and Gothic sculpture, which Scotland...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. In some of the cloisters, as is hinted in the next Canto, there are representations of flowers, vegetables,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 sidor
...white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; THE • • 36 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 342 sidor
...ruins afford the finest specimen of Gothic architecture, and G-othic sculpture, which Scotland cau boast. The stone, of which it is built, though it...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. In some of the cloisters, as is hinted in the next Canto, there are representations of flowers, vegetables,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 sidor
...oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower 4 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee tolive and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o>r the dead mun's grave... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 sidor
...beautiful monastery of Melrose was founded by King David I. Its ruins aflbrd the finest specimen of Gothic architecture and Gothic sculpture which Scotland can...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. In some of the cloisters, as is hinted in the next Canto, there are representations of flowers, vegetables,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 sidor
...beautiful monastery of Melrose was founded by King David I. Its ruins afford the finest specimen of Gothic architecture, and Gothic sculpture, which Scotland...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought. In some of the cloisters, as is hinted in the next Canto, there are representations of flowers, vegetables,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 sidor
...beautiful monastery of Melrose was founded by King David I. Its ruins afford the finest specimen of Gothic architecture and Gothic sculpture which Scotland can...minute ornaments seem as entire as when newly wrought In some of the cloisters, as is hinted in the next VOL. I. R • Canto, there are representations of... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 584 sidor
...Oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower, Streams on the ruin'd central tower, When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed...imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go —... | |
 | John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - 152 sidor
...oriel glimmers white ; When the cold lights uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, * Seem framed...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thcc to live and die ; When distant Twted is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's... | |
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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... 
