 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 - Pàgina 12per sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pàgines
...manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time • , . ' /. .- '. Had called his harmless art a crime. :' • , •...his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please & peasant's ear* The harp, a king had loved to hear. .'. : ,/:ii i . i • He passed where Newark's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pàgines
...changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne; The higots of the iron time llad called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pàgines
...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. He i-.i— i-il where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pàgines
...affections. Such subjects had interest every where; the poet accordingly became the favourite of all ranks, And tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had deign'd to hear. This may truly he styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pàgines
...affections. Such subjects had interest every where; the poet accordingly became the favourite of all ranks, And tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had deign'd to hear. This may truly be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pàgines
...affections. Such subjects had interest every where ; the poet accordingly became the favourite of all ranks, And tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had deign'd to hear. This may truly be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pàgines
...gay, The unpremeditated lay : 4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor He begged his bread from dooi to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. 5 He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : 6 The minstrel gazed... | |
 | John Malcolm - 1827 - 328 pàgines
...unpremeditated lay. — Old times are past, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Joozee Beg was told his offer was accepted, and after giving the horse he led to another, and taking... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pàgines
...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,...with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigb. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal -arch he past, . i Whose ponderous grate... | |
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