 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.  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 3841854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andrew Bell - 1863 - 386 Seiten
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 Seiten
...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 ;...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 Seiten
...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. n. Hush'd is the harp — the Minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone ? Alone in indigence and... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...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 ;...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 154 Seiten
...throne; 20 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, 2.1 The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 Seiten
...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...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." " Marmion," a tale of Flodden Field, is undoubtedly Scott's greatest poem. If it does not possess the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 Seiten
...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 birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 Seiten
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tnned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." " Marmion," a tale of Flodden Field, is undoubtedly Scott's greatest poem. If it does not possess the... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 Seiten
...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...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. THE FLY. WILLIAM OLDYS. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I; Freely welcome to... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1891 - 232 Seiten
...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...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." The old English and Scottish ballads were not put into written form until long after they were composed... | |
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