 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 minstrel, a poem - Page 12by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Coast chages - 1848 - 360 pages
...Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. * * * He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with wistful eye, No humbler resting-place was nigh. * * * The Duchess marked his weary pace," &c. Lay of... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...were changed, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time, Had called his harmless art a crime, A wandering Harper,...door; And tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a Uing had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower LooUs out from Yarrow's birchen bower:... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...unpremeditated lay. Old times were changed, old manners gone,A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, Th' embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous gate and massy bar Had oft rolled back the tide... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...were changed, old maaners gone, A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time, Had called his harmless art a crime, A wandering Harper,...Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel guzed with wistful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear. The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where .Newark's2 stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: ' The "Lay of the Last... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...were changed, old mannen gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time r social comforts drop away. Well tried through many...every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fil Not leu picturesque are the following passages, which instantly became popular :— | /'.••. ч... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...stranger filled the Stuart's throne,3 The bigots of the iron time Had called the harmless art a crime.4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear.5 SIB W. SCOTT. 1 . What are tresses f 2. What is meant by border chivalry f 3. Historical allusion... | |
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