...could not furnish them with an hour's more valuable reading than they will find in the Introductions to the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," and " The Lady of the Lake," both of which we shall extract entire, the more willingly that It will be some little time before they...

...my complete ignorance of poetry at an age between thirteen and fourteen, read aloud in the evenings The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake, thus giving me the first inkling of the meaning of poetry — incredible as it may sound to those who...

...8. 3 ah. 6 d. — The Lady of the Lake : a poem in six cantos. Glasgow , Bryce. 192 p. 32. 1 sh. — The Lay of the Last Minstrel , and the Lady of the Lake. With introduction and notes by FT Palgrave. (Globe readings from standard authors.) London, Macmillan...

...early portion of the century may be included in that memorable collection. The first volume consists of ' The Lay of the Last Minstrel ' and ' The Lady of the Lake,' strict chronological accuracy being thus violated, as ' Marmion,' which occupies the second volume,...

...of Shakspeare, Dryburgh to the grave of Scott, and Melrose and the Trosachs to the pen -which wrote "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" and " The Lady of the Lake." But this is not all. Scott has created by his single genius a vast capital in the shape of books which...

...CUURT JOCIVAL. MR FOSTER personally visited the Districts in which the scenery dtscribed in MARMION, the LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, and the LADY OF THE LAKE is situated, and his Illustrations embrace every Place of Interest noticed in the Poems. Poetical Works...

...Poets what he has done so sumptuously for the Ancient. We have here two of Scott's great works — "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" and "The Lady of the Lake," in a style never surpassed even in those guinea costumes in which they originally appeared. Mr. Gilflllan's...

...in the poetry of Scott, (and that I must admit is an exquisite enjoyment,) he must visit the scenery of the Lay of the Last Minstrel and the Lady of the Lake on foot. Sophia Scott told me that she once did this with her father in a drenching rain, which he...

...and Lowlands are, together, the monument of one who, by the Waverley Novels and his glowing romances of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," and " the Lady of the Lake," &c., made his country familiar to dwellers in far distant regions. It is as the " Lamí of Scott" that...

...early history, by a series of romantic compositions, " in prose or rhyme," like the Waverley Novels, the Lay of the Last Minstrel, and the Lady of the Lake, — the scenes of which should be laid in North America, somewhere in the time before the Revolution,...