 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...  The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Стр. 11авторы: sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Страниц: 823Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - Страниц: 282
...glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - Страниц: 372
...glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | Jean Froissart - 1847 - Страниц: 378
...glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower • Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 582
...glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - Страниц: 512
...glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower, Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - Страниц: 330
...glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of...silver edges the 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Страниц: 408
...beautiful description of Melrose Abbey by moonlight, from which I have just quoted, we read : — " When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon...silver edges, the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die." If you look at a good engraving of one of the many crosses erected by Edward... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - Страниц: 540
...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...silver edges the imagery And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die, When distant Tweed is heard to rave And the owlet to hoot oe'r the dead man's... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - Страниц: 170
...tra'-cer-y, ornamental stone-work - - tracer. When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...view St. David's ruined pile': And, home returning, eoothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto II.). MELROSE... | |
 | Staffa - 1850 - Страниц: 186
...When silver edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant sea is heard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...grave; Then go— but go alone the while — Then view lona's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair.' The Chapter-house... | |
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