 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 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, scorned and poor, He begged bis bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 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,...door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower; The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - 1852 - 458 страници
...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 страници
...unpremeditated lay. Old times were changed, old manners gone A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...ear, The harp a king' had loved to hear. He passed \\ here Newark's stately tower Looks out frfyTi Yarrow's birchen bower; The minstrel £azed with wishful... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 страници
...and oppress'd, Wish'd to be with them, and at rest. 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. The minstrel gazed -with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step at... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 страници
...of the iron time Had call'd hu harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He besg'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 Г ? ar«*fit metrical... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 страници
...manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time, Had called liis harmless art a crime, A wandering Harper, scorned...from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wistful eye— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 страници
...carest, 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...a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear ! Amidst the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 392 страници
...this, sir author ; for I'll swear the Irish are as hospitable and as musical as the Scotch: — " ' A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. THE LAST EARL OF DESMOND. 117 He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen... | |
 | 1854 - 792 страници
...caressed, High placed in ball, 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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