 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 страници
...time Had called the harmless art a crime.4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear.5 SIB W. SCOTT. .. What are tresses f 2. What is meant hy horder chinalry f 3. Historical allusion... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 страници
...the iron time n 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 Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 страници
...oppress'd, Wish'd to he with them, and at rest. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He hegg'd his hread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's...The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark'sz stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirehen hower: i The "Lay of tho Last Minstrel" conelate... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 страници
...iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. D 3 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 TOWER. THE feast was over in Branksome Tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret... | |
 | 1857 - 676 страници
...to lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay. ******* 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. And thus it occurred, that even the courtly tales of Arthur and of Charlemagne contributed their quota... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 страници
...unpremeditated lay\ Old times were changed', old manners gone* ; A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne* ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless...peasant's ear' The harp a king had loved to hear\ 3. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 страници
...poured to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay. 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 Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 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 a peasant's ear The harp a king had loved to hear. But the kind eyes of the Duchess had canght sight of the Minstrel as he toiled up to the Castle of... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 страници
...unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. "THE AGED MINSTREL AUDIENCE GAINED.' Wandering Minstrels. 147 As the old man toiled along by " Newark's... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 224 страници
...unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless...to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, 'THE AGED MINSTREL At DIENCE GAINED." As the old man toiled along by " Newark's flately towers,"— The... | |
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Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. 
