| Walter Scott - 1900 - 522 sider
...day. We can do no more in this brief sketch than give the titles of three of his best-known poems : The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, Critics agree that these are not great poems, and even young readers see that in some respects they... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1901 - 202 sider
...much easier to discern the great novelist of subsequent years in the Border Minstrelsy than even in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together. From those romantic poems you would never guess that Scott entered more eagerly and... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1901 - 230 sider
...easier to discern the great novelist of subsequent years in the Border Minstrelsy than even in Th« Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together. From those romantic poems you would never guess that Scott entered more eagerly and... | |
| JOHN MORLEY - 1902 - 210 sider
...much easier to discern the great novelist of subsequent years in the Border Minstrelsy than even in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together. From those romantic poems you would never guess that Scott entered more eagerly and... | |
| William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - 1903 - 66 sider
...l''roin a drawing hy JMW Turner, RA Scott removed from LasM\ ade to Ashestiel in 1804, and here wrote " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," '' Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake" (Reproduced from Lockhart's " Life of Scott/' by kind permission of Messrs. A. & C. B'ack) Kelso, where... | |
| William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - 1903 - 66 sider
...From a drawing ly JMW Turner, RA Scott removed from Lass\vade to Ashestiel in 1804, and here wrote " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," *' Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake " (Reproduced from Lockhart's " Life of Scott," by kind permission of Messrs. A. & C. IVack) Kelso,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1906 - 568 sider
...until 1815 there appeared from' time to time his great metrical romances, the most important of which are the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. With the publication of Byron's Childe Harold in 1812 Scott's reputation as a poet began to decline.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1906 - 272 sider
...their effect upon minds long used to the stuffy decorum of didactic poetry, completed the triumph of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, over their age. As has been already suggested, Scott cannot be put in the first rank of poets. No compromise... | |
| 1906 - 298 sider
...of Harden married to save his life, and Ashieshel, the first home on Tweedside of Sir Walter, where the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake were written, is eloquently described. The legend is told of the trial of strength between the wizard... | |
| William Stebbing - 1907 - 428 sider
...and glowing interest to stimulate reader and writer alike. With three he was fortunate. As mere tales The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake, fascinate. Bannockburn is not intimately enough connected with Bruce's wanderings among the Isles to... | |
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