 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 pàgines
...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,...The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye— No humbler resting place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pàgines
...were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron tune Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper,...wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 pàgines
...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...Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed with wishful,. eyeNo humbler resting place was nigh. With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time • , . ' /. .- '. Had called his harmless art a crime. :' • , •...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pàgines
...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,...wishful eye— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pàgines
...changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne; The higots of the iron 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 ear, The harp, a king had loved... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pàgines
...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,...wishful eye— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pàgines
...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 i-.i— i-il where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pàgines
...affections. Such subjects had interest every where; the poet accordingly became the favourite of all ranks, And tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had deign'd to hear. This may truly he styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
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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. 
