 | 1854 - 792 sider
...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 sider
...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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 392 sider
...Scotch: — " ' 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 LAST EARL OF DESMOND. 117 He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 sider
...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 ! Amidst the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary... | |
 | 1854 - 704 sider
...unpremeditated lay. A wandering harper, (corned 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... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 382 sider
...Scotch: — " ' 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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 sider
...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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 sider
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sider
...art a crime.4 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 to hear.5 SIB W. SCOTT. .. What are tresses f 2. What is meant hy horder chinalry f 3. Historical allusion... | |
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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. 
