 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 poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Page 2by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 823 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay : Old...filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron tune Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pages
...time Had ealled his haradess art a erime. A wandering Harper, seorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's...where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirehen hower: The minstrel gazed with wishful eyeNo humhler resting-plaee was nigh. With hesitating... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay : Old...his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please & peasant's ear* The harp, a king had loved to hear. .'. : ,/:ii i . i • He passed where Newark's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...time llad called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's...where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirchen hower: The minstrel gazed with wishful eye — No humhler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay : Old...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He i-.i— i-il where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 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 a...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... | |
 | John Malcolm - Iran - 1827 - 328 pages
...unpremeditated lay. — Old times are past, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Joozee Beg was told his offer was accepted, and after giving the horse he led to another, and taking... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay. * • * * A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his...peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, "1 And an uncertain warbling made — > And oft he shook his... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...the iron lime 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'sS stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : •ort of enthusinem among... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 418 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." Lay of the Latt Minttrd.} brated in prose as ever they had been in poetic narrative. But the new candidates... | |
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