The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A PoemLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ... and A. Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1805 - 319 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... brave boy , in future war , Should tame the Unicorn's pride , Exalt the Crescents and the Start . * Foray , a predatory inroad . † Alluding to the armorial bearings of the Scotts and Cars . XX . The Ladye forgot her purpose high , One 21.
... brave boy , in future war , Should tame the Unicorn's pride , Exalt the Crescents and the Start . * Foray , a predatory inroad . † Alluding to the armorial bearings of the Scotts and Cars . XX . The Ladye forgot her purpose high , One 21.
Pagina 94
... brave , my only boy , Fell by the side of great Dundee . Why , when the volleying musket played Against the bloody Highland blade , Why was not I beside him laid ! — Enough he died the death of fame ; Enough he died with conquering ...
... brave , my only boy , Fell by the side of great Dundee . Why , when the volleying musket played Against the bloody Highland blade , Why was not I beside him laid ! — Enough he died the death of fame ; Enough he died with conquering ...
Pagina 99
... brave Arrayed beneath a banner bright . The tressured fleur - de - luce he claims To wreathe his shield , since royal James , Encamped by Fala's mossy wave , The proud distinction grateful gave , · For faith mid feudal jars ; What time ...
... brave Arrayed beneath a banner bright . The tressured fleur - de - luce he claims To wreathe his shield , since royal James , Encamped by Fala's mossy wave , The proud distinction grateful gave , · For faith mid feudal jars ; What time ...
Pagina 120
... brave and true , From Jedwood's recent sack they knew , How tardy was the regent's aid ; And you may guess the noble Dame Durst not the secret prescience own , Sprung from the art she might not name , By which the coming help was known ...
... brave and true , From Jedwood's recent sack they knew , How tardy was the regent's aid ; And you may guess the noble Dame Durst not the secret prescience own , Sprung from the art she might not name , By which the coming help was known ...
Pagina 144
... LORD DACRE . Forward , brave champions , to the fight ! Sound trumpets- LORD HOME . " God defend the right ! " At the last word , with deadly blows , The ready warriors fiercely close . XXI . Ill would it suit your gentle ear , 144.
... LORD DACRE . Forward , brave champions , to the fight ! Sound trumpets- LORD HOME . " God defend the right ! " At the last word , with deadly blows , The ready warriors fiercely close . XXI . Ill would it suit your gentle ear , 144.
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ancient arms band bard Baron beneath betwixt Bewcastle blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's brave Buccleuch called CANTO castle Cessford chapel chief clan courser cross Cumberland dæmons Dame dark dead devyll Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Eildon hills English Ettricke Forest fair on Carlisle fight friends hall hand harp Hawick heard highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh king Kirkwall knight Ladye laird lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Michael MINSTREL moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er never noble o'er ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scot Scotland Scottish Scottish Border shew shulde Sir William slain song spear St Clair steed stone stood sun shines fair sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyme theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tomb tower Twas tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warden warrior wave ween wild William of Deloraine wound XXIII
Populaire passages
Pagina 36 - 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 ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Pagina 193 - 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 ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Pagina 8 - In varying cadence, soft or 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, The poet's glowing thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the latest minstrel sung.
Pagina 163 - ... wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide...
Pagina 162 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Pagina 182 - The blackening wave is edged with white : To inch and rock the sea-mews fly ; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh.
Pagina 7 - Where she with all her ladies sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please...
Pagina 6 - And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain, Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak, He thought even yet, the sooth to speak. That, if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear.
Pagina 139 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Pagina 3 - 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! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.