 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1888 - 316 sider
...convenient to hold, and an ornament to the library shelves. READY AND IN PREPARATION. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S "LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL," "MARMION," and "THE LADY OF THE LAKE." The three poems in one volume. " There are no books for boys like these poems by Sir Walter Scott.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - 308 sider
...descriptions of Scottish scenery and feudal warfare that present themselves to our memory when we think of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, on the other hand, it is more free from such flat and tedious passages as disfigure parts of those... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1839 - 744 sider
...Scotland share in the exultation of the publishers who have successively sent among them cheap editions of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake," that they can buy them at o lower price than if the great minstrel who produced them were still among... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - 1896 - 232 sider
...tnonometer, Dactylic dimeter, etc. Iambic tetrameter predominates in old English ballads. Scott uses it in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. The Prisoner of Chillnn, by Lord Byron, is also written in this measure. Iambic pentameter verse without... | |
 | Wallace Bruce - 1893 - 292 sider
...strings that ivy which had for years muffled its music. His appeal to "wake once more " was answered by the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel,' ' Marmion,' and the ' Lady of the Lake ' ; and while mountains and lochs were yet listening to the echoes, the minstrel said farewell to the... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 624 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... | |
 | James Russell - 1894 - 436 sider
...streams, By tales of love and sorrow, Of faithful love, undaunted truth, Hast shed the power of Yarrow." The ' Lay of the Last Minstrel,' ' Marmion,' and the ' Lady of the Lake,' all came from Ashiestiel in those years; and there, too, 'Waverley' was written. Moreover, in feeding... | |
 | Adele Ellis - 1896 - 216 sider
...subject and style at that time. These met with an enthusiastic reception. The three greatest of them (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake), with some smaller poems, were published between 1805 and 1814. The first three were extremely popular,... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1903 - 270 sider
...one of the greatest of the world's poets. I shall mention only his three great works in verse — " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake " — in which not only is every note in the gamut of human emotion touched by a master hand, but the... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 sider
...Border region whose romantic legends he knew so well. The greater of these poems are, unquestionably, 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... | |
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together. 
