The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With Ballads, Songs, and Miscellaneous PoemsC.S. Francis & Company, 1845 - 352 Seiten |
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... home together to the city , they had talked much on the subject , and the result was an earnest desire that I would proceed with the composi- tion . He also added , that some sort of prologue might be necessary , to place the mind of ...
... home together to the city , they had talked much on the subject , and the result was an earnest desire that I would proceed with the composi- tion . He also added , that some sort of prologue might be necessary , to place the mind of ...
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... Home and Douglas , in the van , Bore down Buccleuch's retiring clan , Till gallant Cessford's heart - blood dear Reek'd on dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far ...
... Home and Douglas , in the van , Bore down Buccleuch's retiring clan , Till gallant Cessford's heart - blood dear Reek'd on dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far ...
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... home returning , soothly swear , Was never scene so sad and fair ! II . Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little reck'd he of the scene so fair : With dagger's hilt , on the wicket strong , He struck full loud , and struck full long ...
... home returning , soothly swear , Was never scene so sad and fair ! II . Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little reck'd he of the scene so fair : With dagger's hilt , on the wicket strong , He struck full loud , and struck full long ...
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... Home and Hermitage , Talk'd of Lord Cranstoun's Goblin - Page . XXXIII . For the Baron went on Pilgrimage , And took with him this elvish Page , To Mary's Chapel of the Lowes : For there , beside our Ladye's lake , An offering he had ...
... Home and Hermitage , Talk'd of Lord Cranstoun's Goblin - Page . XXXIII . For the Baron went on Pilgrimage , And took with him this elvish Page , To Mary's Chapel of the Lowes : For there , beside our Ladye's lake , An offering he had ...
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... home , their law the sword , They knew no country , own'd no lord : 1 1 The mercenary adventurers , whom , in 1380 , the Earl of Cam- bridge carried to the assistance of the King of Portugal against the Spaniards , mutinied for want of ...
... home , their law the sword , They knew no country , own'd no lord : 1 1 The mercenary adventurers , whom , in 1380 , the Earl of Cam- bridge carried to the assistance of the King of Portugal against the Spaniards , mutinied for want of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron BATTLE OF SEMPACH betwixt blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO Carlisle castle chase Chief Clair clan Count Albert courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dark dead Deloraine Douglas dread Earl Ettrick Ettrick Forest fair forest FROISSART gallant hall hand harp head hear heard heart horse hound King knight lady Ladye Laird lances land LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord loud maid Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale MINSTREL Minstrelsy moss-trooper Mount Lebanon mountain Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Moringer Note o'er poem pray'd ride rode round Saint Scotland Scots Scott Scottish Scottish Border seem'd shalt Sir William slain song spear steed sword ta'en tale tear tell Teviot's thee Thomas Musgrave thou tide tower Twas Virgilius voice Walter warriors wave ween wild William of Deloraine
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 27 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed 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, well-a-day!
Seite 149 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well...
Seite 50 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Seite 327 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away ; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size ; We can show the marks he made, When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Seite 44 - In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen.
Seite 168 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle ; Each one the holy vault doth hold — But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds The dirge of lovely Rosabelle, [sung, XXIV.
Seite 175 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Seite 166 - Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.
Seite 149 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Seite 306 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round...