...and living body of feudal revival. The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. According to Scott's own judgment, the interest of the Lay depends mainly upon the style, that of Marmion...

...and living body of feudal revival. The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lahe. According to Scott's own judgment, the interest of the Lay depends mainly upon the style, that...

...PERCY'S Religttes of Ancient Poetry. { 2. WALTER SCOTT. His life and writings. { 3. His poems. { 4. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. § 5. Rokeby, Lord (if the Isles, and minor poems. $6. Classification of the Waverlcy Novels. §7....

...with the view of placing in the hands of the less opulent classes a pleasing specimen of proesteemed for their beauty of language and sentiment. The works...Some of the lyrical pieces are also much admired. ductions once so deservedly popular, and still highly SCOTLAND—MY NATIVE LAND. BREATHES there the...

...1771, died 1S32, was an exeellent poet, and the most eelebrated novel writer of his day. His best poems are : "The 'Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake ; " but the " Waverley Novels " brought him the greatest fame. Lesson 22.— Tuesday Morn. Geography....

...novels there is here no question, though he is greater as a novelist than as a poet. His chief poems are The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. They are remarkable for the power of description they display, the melody of their songs, the interest...

...and living body of feudal revival. The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. According to Scott's own judgment, the interest of the Lay depends mainly upon the style, that of Marmion...

...Christianitt," by William Paley. Poems, by Lord Byron : chief work, " Childe Hirold's Pilgrimage." " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake," the chief poems of Sir Waltei Scott, who also wrote the Waverley Novels. (f) Poems, by Samuel Coleridge....

...he became worse, and returned home to Abbotsford, where he died in 1832. Scott's three great poems are the Lay of the Last Minst/rel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. The first of these illustrates " the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the borders of...

...poems under the title of ' Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.' Then appeared in rapid succession ' The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' ' Marmion,' and the • Lady of the Lake,' which at once established his character as a poet. Subsequently he wrote those masterly productions known...