Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical ... - Page 4
by Sir Walter Scott - 1857
Full view - About this book

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 pages
...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,...The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye— No humbler resting place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous...
Full view - About this book

The lay of the last minstrel, a poem

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron tune Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper,...wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy...
Full view - About this book

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 pages
...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...Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with wishful,. eyeNo humbler resting place was nigh. With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed,...
Full view - About this book

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem

Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pages
...time Had ealled his haradess art a erime. A wandering Harper, seorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's...where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirehen hower: The minstrel gazed with wishful eyeNo humhler resting-plaee was nigh. With hesitating...
Full view - About this book

The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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,...wishful eye— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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,...wishful eye— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy...
Full view - About this book

British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 2

1821 - 662 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF