| George Willson - 1840 - 298 страници
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And timed, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : Tho minstrel gazed with... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 страници
...unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne ; scornM and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp,... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 страници
...unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The... | |
| George Willson - 1844 - 300 страници
...the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarspw's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 страници
...the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SCOTT. BRANKSOME TOWEK. THE feast was over in Branksome tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...the iron time Had called hie harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged is bread from doo Not less picturesque are the following passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страници
...iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, »corned and poor, He begged hia e spreading tree Not less picturesque arc the following passages, which instantly became popular : — [Description... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 страници
...the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had cal1'd his harmless art a crime. A wand'ring harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door ; And tun'd, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had lov'd to hear." — p. 3, 4. After describing... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 страници
...changed, old manners gone ; A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had r.iUM his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd...The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with wistful eye... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 страници
...unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger fill'd the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless...from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's car, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's1 stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's... | |
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