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
| Readings - 1843 - 466 страници
...manners gone; The unpremeditated lay: The bigots of the iron time A stranger tilled the Stuarts' throne; Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, He begged his bread from door to door; The harp a king had loved... | |
| George Willson - 1844 - 300 страници
...were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; 3 The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper,...passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarspw's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh.... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 страници
...were 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. SCOTT. BRANKSOME TOWEK. THE feast was over in Branksome tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...old mannen gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called hie ind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His withered cheek 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... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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,...wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. * This extraordinary and versatile genius and amiable and excellent man (the successful author of a... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 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. Hushed is the harp — the Minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone 1 Alone, in indigence and age,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 страници
...of the iron time Had r.iUM 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 - 1845 - 382 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 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... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 страници
...throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, sc»rned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ;...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. Hushed is the harp — the Minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone ? Alone, in indigence and age,... | |
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