 Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of 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.  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 38by Walter Scott - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 pages
...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...peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | 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 ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirehen hower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | 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 ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirchen hower: The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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...peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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...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 - 656 pages
...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 be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...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 be styled the splendid age of Teutonic poetry, blending the narrative... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...gay, The unpremeditated lay : 4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor He begged his bread from dooi to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. 5 He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : 6 The minstrel gazed... | |
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