The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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Page 37
... Bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , welladay ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and oppress'd , Wish'd to be with them , and at rest . No more on prancing palfrey borne , He ...
... Bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , welladay ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and oppress'd , Wish'd to be with them , and at rest . No more on prancing palfrey borne , He ...
Page 47
... Bards long shall tell , How Lord Walter fell ! 2 When startled burghers fled , afar , The furies of the Border war ; When the streets of high Dunedin 3 Saw lances gleam , and falchions redden , And heard the slogan's deadly yell- Then ...
... Bards long shall tell , How Lord Walter fell ! 2 When startled burghers fled , afar , The furies of the Border war ; When the streets of high Dunedin 3 Saw lances gleam , and falchions redden , And heard the slogan's deadly yell- Then ...
Page 51
... studies , they are obliged to run through a subterraneous hall , where the devil literally catches the hindmost in the race , unless he crosses the hall so speedily , XII . And of his skill , as bards avow CANTO I. ] 51 THE LAST MINSTREL .
... studies , they are obliged to run through a subterraneous hall , where the devil literally catches the hindmost in the race , unless he crosses the hall so speedily , XII . And of his skill , as bards avow CANTO I. ] 51 THE LAST MINSTREL .
Page 52
... bards avow , He taught that Ladye fair , Till to her bidding she could bow The viewless forms of air . ' And now she sits in secret bower , In old Lord , David's western tower , And listens to a heavy sound , That moans the mossy ...
... bards avow , He taught that Ladye fair , Till to her bidding she could bow The viewless forms of air . ' And now she sits in secret bower , In old Lord , David's western tower , And listens to a heavy sound , That moans the mossy ...
Page 114
... Bard when , with assumed business , he tries to conceal real sorrow . How well the poet understands the art of contrast - and how judiciously it is exerted in the exordium of the next Canto , where our mourning sympathy is exchanged for ...
... Bard when , with assumed business , he tries to conceal real sorrow . How well the poet understands the art of contrast - and how judiciously it is exerted in the exordium of the next Canto , where our mourning sympathy is exchanged for ...
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ancient appeared Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blood Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chief Clair clan courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dead Deloraine Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Edinburgh English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest father friends hall hand Harden harp heard highnes horse James Jedburgh King knight Knight of Liddesdale Lady Ladye lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale literary Lord manner Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-troopers Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem poet poetical poetry ride rode romance Roslin round rung sayd scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd Selkirkshire shulde Sir Walter Sir William slain song spear spirit stanzas steed stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale theyme Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tion tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound