 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 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 Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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 Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 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. SIR W. SCOTT. CLVI THE FAIRY QUEEN. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting... | |
 | 1863 - 392 страници
...harmless art a crime. A wandering haqjer, 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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - 1863 - 386 страници
...among the commonalty. Thus Scott's " Last Minstrel" whiningly tells how he was fain, at last, "To tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Latterly, the minstrels, troubadours, &c. added less laudable employment to their own ostensible calling... | |
 | William Andrews - 1892 - 290 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." Curious XanoboloinQ Customs. IN bygone times jocular tenures and mirthful manorial customs formed a... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 страници
...time a Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his way from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. LOVE OF COUNTRY BREATHES there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, "This is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 страници
...unpremeditated lay: Old times were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless...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 wishful eye... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 454 страници
...therewith pay some Wandering Willie to fiddle at their own doors ; or bid some grey-haired minstrel " Tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." And similarly the dwellers in the hut of the field, and garret of the city, are beginning to think... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 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 Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
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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. 
