 | John Ruskin - 1905
...some Wandering Willie1 to fiddle at their own doors, or bid some gray-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 that... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1905
...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 birchin bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1907
...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 harpva king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908
...were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SIR WALTER SCOTT THE NEW SOUTH A master hand has drawn for you the picture of your returning armies.... | |
 | George Carter Howland - 1908 - 314 страници
...gay idlers, the butterflies, Broke today from their winter shroud. Roll on, ye mighty waters, roll! A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door. What noun is used to modify Olaf by identifying the person denoted? Harold? What noun is used to modify... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 970 страници
...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd n with many a glade between, Whose tangled alleys far invade car, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 606 страници
...were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SIR W. SCOTT (The Lay of the Last Minstrel). 813. REBECCA'S HYMN WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved,... | |
 | Frederick Keppel - 1910 - 314 страници
...indispensable, as for centuries he was. Like Scott's superseded and forlorn Last Minstrel, "He tunes to please a peasant's ear The harp a king had loved to hear." He "rests from his labors," yet "his works do follow him." The great engravers are dead, but the great... | |
 | Frederick Keppel - 1910
...indispensable, as for centuries he was. Like Scott's superseded and forlorn Last Minstrel, "He tunes to please a peasant's ear The harp a king had loved to hear." He "rests from his labors," yet "his works do follow him." The great engravers are dead, but the great... | |
 | Henry Meade Bland - 1912 - 112 страници
...changed, old manners gone, — A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. There is a striking analogy between the line of development of the child, in its attitude to literature,... | |
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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. 
