 Stuarts' throne : The bigots of 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.  The lay of the last minstrel, a poem - Страница 12по sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1854 - 712 страници
...caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured to lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loycd to hear. And thus it occurred, that even the courtly tales of Arthur and of Charlemagne contributed... | |
 | 1854 - 704 страници
...a welcome guest. He poured to lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay. A wandering harper, (corned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 страници
...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...peasant's ear, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 страници
...a fierce «w! (rtcipitoas rtrr-am, which unita with the Ettricke about a BO* bf nrath the cutle. 3 Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel...with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigli, With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal arch he pasa'd. Whose ponderous grate and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 страници
...divincst strains of poetry, for even the courtly burda yield to the enforcement of the time — And tune to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. This is the grand distinction between the present and all former ages ; and without adverting to it,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 страници
...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...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks put from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1856 - 218 страници
...strikes upon his eye, recalls the supposed scene of the "Lay of the last Minstrel :"— " He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gaz'd with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh ; With hesitating step, at last, Th' embattled... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 страници
...changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; so The bigots of the iron time n Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper,...wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. so With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy... | |
 | 1857 - 676 страници
...High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured to lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay. ******* A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...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... | |
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