 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 Lay of the Last Minstrelby Walter Scott - 1812 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - 590 pages
...throne f Had called his harmless an 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 Sing had loved to hear. ' He passed where Newa1k's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1809 - 358 pages
...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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Edward Ward - 1812 - 456 pages
...The unpremeditated lay; *..,- A 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 yncertain warbling made ; . . And oft he shook his... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | John Evans - American poetry - 1814 - 298 pages
...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! Amidst the strings his fingers stray'dAnd an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door ; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirchen hower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | 1821 - 658 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 be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 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 be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
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