The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... Wild Huntsman . The same year witnessed the dis- appointment of a long and fondly - cherished hope , by the marriage of a young lady , whose image , notwithstanding , clung to his memory through life , and inspired some of the tenderest ...
... Wild Huntsman . The same year witnessed the dis- appointment of a long and fondly - cherished hope , by the marriage of a young lady , whose image , notwithstanding , clung to his memory through life , and inspired some of the tenderest ...
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... wild glades of Ettricke Forest . " — Monthly Review , May , 1808. ] 1 [ " We consider this poem as an attempt to transfer the refinements of modern poetry to the matter and the manner of the ancient metrical romance . The author ...
... wild glades of Ettricke Forest . " — Monthly Review , May , 1808. ] 1 [ " We consider this poem as an attempt to transfer the refinements of modern poetry to the matter and the manner of the ancient metrical romance . The author ...
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... his hoary head . But when he caught the measure wild , The old man raised his face , and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye , With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept INTRODUCTION . 41.
... his hoary head . But when he caught the measure wild , The old man raised his face , and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye , With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept INTRODUCTION . 41.
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... wild despair . But not alone the bitter tear he caused the body to be raised , and transported to his native city of Valenciennes , where masses were , in the days of Froissart , duly said for the soul of the unfortunate pil- grim ...
... wild despair . But not alone the bitter tear he caused the body to be raised , and transported to his native city of Valenciennes , where masses were , in the days of Froissart , duly said for the soul of the unfortunate pil- grim ...
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... wild harp , whose magic tone Is waken'd by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reach'd , ' twas silence all ; He meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall.2 1 Lauds , the midnight service of the Catholic ...
... wild harp , whose magic tone Is waken'd by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reach'd , ' twas silence all ; He meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall.2 1 Lauds , the midnight service of the Catholic ...
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