The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
Page xviii
... land- holder ; and , while neither he nor his friends could yet have foreseen the immensity of those resources which his genius was afterwards to place at his disposal for the attainment of his favourite wish , two plans occurred and ...
... land- holder ; and , while neither he nor his friends could yet have foreseen the immensity of those resources which his genius was afterwards to place at his disposal for the attainment of his favourite wish , two plans occurred and ...
Page 18
... land of her husband with the desire of making herself acquainted with its traditions and customs , as well as its manners and history . All who remember this lady will agree , that the in- tellectual character of her extreme beauty ...
... land of her husband with the desire of making herself acquainted with its traditions and customs , as well as its manners and history . All who remember this lady will agree , that the in- tellectual character of her extreme beauty ...
Page 20
... land.1 I was of some use to him in procuring the information which he desired , and guiding him to the scenes which he wished to see . In return , he made me better acquainted than I had hitherto been with the poetic effusions which ...
... land.1 I was of some use to him in procuring the information which he desired , and guiding him to the scenes which he wished to see . In return , he made me better acquainted than I had hitherto been with the poetic effusions which ...
Page 23
... land servant , packed all that was my own at least , for I had also included a line of invocation , a lit- tle softened , from Coleridge- 66 ' Mary , mother , shield us well . " As neither of my friends said much to me on the subject of ...
... land servant , packed all that was my own at least , for I had also included a line of invocation , a lit- tle softened , from Coleridge- 66 ' Mary , mother , shield us well . " As neither of my friends said much to me on the subject of ...
Page 38
... a part of her jointure lands . But of this she could make little advantage ; for , after the death of her husband , she is found complaining The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye— No humbler resting - 38 LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
... a part of her jointure lands . But of this she could make little advantage ; for , after the death of her husband , she is found complaining The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye— No humbler resting - 38 LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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