The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With Ballads, Songs, and Miscellaneous PoemsC.S. Francis & Company, 1845 - 352 páginas |
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... strong memory with an excellent taste , was able to repeat to me many long specimens of their poetry , which had not yet appeared in print . Amongst others , was the striking fragment called Chris- tabel , by Mr. Coleridge , which ...
... strong memory with an excellent taste , was able to repeat to me many long specimens of their poetry , which had not yet appeared in print . Amongst others , was the striking fragment called Chris- tabel , by Mr. Coleridge , which ...
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... strong , He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene , the future lot , His toils , his wants , were all forgot : Cold diffidence , and age's frost , In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank , in faithless memory void ...
... strong , He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene , the future lot , His toils , his wants , were all forgot : Cold diffidence , and age's frost , In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank , in faithless memory void ...
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... strong , He struck full loud , and struck full long . The porter hurried to the gate- " Who knocks so loud , and knocks so late ? " . " From Branksome I , " the warrior cried ; And straight the wicket open'd wide : For Branksome's ...
... strong , He struck full loud , and struck full long . The porter hurried to the gate- " Who knocks so loud , and knocks so late ? " . " From Branksome I , " the warrior cried ; And straight the wicket open'd wide : For Branksome's ...
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... strong , and his courage was high : - Now , slow and faint , he led the way , Where , cloister'd round , the garden lay ; The pillar'd arches were over their head , And beneath their feet were the bones of the dead . " ' The Borderers ...
... strong , and his courage was high : - Now , slow and faint , he led the way , Where , cloister'd round , the garden lay ; The pillar'd arches were over their head , And beneath their feet were the bones of the dead . " ' The Borderers ...
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... strong , They not an arrow drew but was a clothyard long . Of archery they had the very perfect craft , With broad arrow , or but , or prick , or roving shaft . " Poly - Albion , Song 26 . To wound an antagonist in the thigh , or leg ...
... strong , They not an arrow drew but was a clothyard long . Of archery they had the very perfect craft , With broad arrow , or but , or prick , or roving shaft . " Poly - Albion , Song 26 . To wound an antagonist in the thigh , or leg ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
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Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...