...opens with a picture of the Abbey of Melrose, almost as Highly wrought as the work which it pourtraysj If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pal ц moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey, When the...

...that Mr. Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the subject of moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou wouldst. view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." &c. We repaired to the cathedral again in the morning. The interior is extremely spacious, and the...

...that Walter Scott has so elegantly said on the sutyeotHjf ^moonlight visits to such structures : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, • Go visit it by the pale moon-light." &c. W<' repaired -tpjlie, cathedral -again ifi'th^- morning. The interior is exfrcfflely ;^pSc^e^s>...

...poems of Sir Walter Scott, and of l)r. Southey, the poet laureat ; and to such measures as these : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's...

...for not having gone purposely to inspect. But what said the poet of whom I have just been speaking? " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Now there was no moon during the week I was at Kelso; neither if there had, could I hare spared a day...

...busy memory,—he leaned on this staff; and yielded himself up to a flood of sorrow ! CHAPTER XIV. "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon light; "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers while;" SIR...

...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOT9FORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken...

...overlooking the quadrangle, fully to appreciate the force of the oft quoted passage, by Scott — " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; ABBOTSFORD. 77 For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken...

...pretensions to taste and sentiment commence their sing * from the Lay of the Last Minstrel : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," &c. &c. * To the south-west of Melrose, upon a rising ground nigh to The village of Melrose — the...

...as the northern Magician has sung of the celebrated abbey in his native land, in these lines : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight."* Adjoining the little village of Kilgarran was the resi* It is said that the great painter Wilson has...