The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
Page 9
... seems to me not without its use to record the manner and cir- cumstances under which the present , and other Poems on the same plan , attained for a season an extensive reputation . I must resume the story of my literary labours at the ...
... seems to me not without its use to record the manner and cir- cumstances under which the present , and other Poems on the same plan , attained for a season an extensive reputation . I must resume the story of my literary labours at the ...
Page 11
... seem perpetually engaged among his law - papers , dusting them , as it were ; and , as Ovid advises the fair , " Si nullus erit pulvis , tamen excute nullum . " 1 Perhaps such extremity of attention is more especially required ...
... seem perpetually engaged among his law - papers , dusting them , as it were ; and , as Ovid advises the fair , " Si nullus erit pulvis , tamen excute nullum . " 1 Perhaps such extremity of attention is more especially required ...
Page 18
... the other hand , Thus it has been often remarked , that , in the opening cou- plets of Pope's translation of the Iliad , there are two syllables the extreme facility of the short couplet , which seems 18 INTRODUCTION TO THE.
... the other hand , Thus it has been often remarked , that , in the opening cou- plets of Pope's translation of the Iliad , there are two syllables the extreme facility of the short couplet , which seems 18 INTRODUCTION TO THE.
Page 19
A Poem Walter Scott. the extreme facility of the short couplet , which seems congenial to our language , and was , doubtless for that reason , so popular with our old minstrels , is , for the same reason , apt to prove a snare to the ...
A Poem Walter Scott. the extreme facility of the short couplet , which seems congenial to our language , and was , doubtless for that reason , so popular with our old minstrels , is , for the same reason , apt to prove a snare to the ...
Page 35
... Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy . The last of all the Bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , welladay ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were ...
... Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy . The last of all the Bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , welladay ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ancient Appendix arms band Bard Baron beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chapel Clair clan courser Cranstoun Cumberland Dame dead death Douglas dread Duke Earl English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest fair on Carlisle fight friends Froissart hall hand Harden harp Hawick head heard heart highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh King knight Ladye lances lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Melrose Abbey Michael Scott Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem pray'd ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd shulde Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott Sir William slain song spear spirit steed stone stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tomb tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound