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...omit these two lines, and you will at once feel how the effect is deepened." — Let us try : — " If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon light, When the broken arches are black in night, And the shafted oriel glimmers white "!! ! Bravo... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...the venerable pile of Kenilworth, though they are somewhat of a mournful kind. " If thou would'st see fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." And so may it be said of Kenilworth. I have visited the plaöe in company, and mused there alone, both at... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...the ordinary world to converse with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1844 - 334 pages
...the venerable pile of Kenilworth, though they are somewhat of a mournful kind. " If thou would'st see fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." And so may it be said of Kenilworth. I have visited the place in company, and mused there alone, both at the... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1873 - 334 pages
...of the building, where he would repeat the familiar lines of Sir Walter Scott, — " If them wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," and bid his companions mark the simple beauty of this unassuming structure. The first sermon after the... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce, Charles Sumner - Electronic books - 1877 - 408 pages
...waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and again by beautiful moonlight: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; " — and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually to rest on its... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce, Charles Sumner - Electronic books - 1877 - 404 pages
...waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and again by beautiful moonlight: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; " — and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually to rest on its... | |
 | Kate Ross - 1879 - 322 pages
...seen Melrose in the moonlight with my dear husband." Ailie murmured dreamily — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ! " And then changing her vein, hummed the words of a duet which she and her cousin had learned together during... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1897 - 280 pages
...and Melrose Abbey. See the Abbey by moonlight they must, because of the lines— "If thou woukl'st view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight." "And many a time," said Charles Scott, "when the moon was not convenient, I took a lantern to produce the... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - English fiction - 1910 - 360 pages
...all the past week. He would buy one at Belton. The train was slowing for it. The session broke up. If you would view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight ; if Belton, visit it at Whitsuntide, when on the level shore young Halland brooks the hardy ass, when... | |
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... hugged along narrow and precipitous paths, crossed bending bridges, scaled elevated acclivities, penetrated caverns, and finally drenched myself utterly in venturing under the falling sheet of waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and... 
