 | 1854 - 712 páginas
...lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay. 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 loycd to hear. And thus it occurred, that even the courtly tales of Arthur and of Charlemagne contributed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...stranger filled the Stuart's throne,3 The higots of the iron time Had called the harmless art a crime.4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 páginas
...and oppress'd, Wish'd to he with them, and at rest. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He hegg'd his hread from door to door, And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark'sz stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirehen hower: i The "Lay of tho Last... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 páginas
...Had called his harmless art a crime. D 3 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. SCOTT. BRANKSOME TOWER. THE feast was over in Branksome Tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret... | |
 | 1857 - 676 páginas
...lady gay The unpremeditated lay. ******* 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. And thus it occurred, that even the courtly tales of Arthur and of Charlemagne contributed their quota... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 páginas
...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, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 páginas
...manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; 20 VOL. I. A The bigots of the iron time ji Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, lie begged his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved... | |
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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. 
