 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 trang
...Duchess deign to 3°"^™' listen to an old man's strain, though stiff 1 .is hand, his voice thougt weak, he thought, even yet, — the sooth to speak,...loved the harp to hear, he could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtained ; the aged Kindness Minstrel audience gained: but, when he reached... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 trang
...braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew, Of the old warriors of Buccleuch : And, would the noble duchess deign To listen to an...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtained ; The aged minstrel audience gained. But when he reached the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 trang
...A braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd. But, when he reach'd the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 trang
...A braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd. But, when he reach'd the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 406 trang
...a tale he knew, Of the old warriors of Buccleuch : And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen *-o an old man's strain, Though stiff his hand, his voice...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtain'd : The Aged Minstrel audience gain'd. But, when he reach'd the... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 trang
...A braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew Of the old warriors of Bucclcuch : And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an...hand, his voice though weak, He thought even yet, the sooth4 to speak, That, if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. 60. The humble... | |
 | 1880 - 556 trang
...capable of being given in poetry." * Every one knows the lines to which Pitt refers :— " The hnmble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged minstrel audience...when he reach'd the room of state, Where she with ail her ladies sate. Perchance he wieh'd his boon denied ; For, when to tune the harp he tried, His... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 trang
...A braver ne'er to battle rode ; And how full many a tale he knew Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd. But, when he reach'd the... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 trang
...braver ne'er to battle rode : And how full many a tale he knew, Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an...stiff his hand, his voice though weak, He thought e'en yet, the sooth to speak, That, if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 96 trang
...old warriors of Buccleuch ; And would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain, 55 Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak, He thought...loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear. Class Notes. 41. Adversity. L., adversitas ; ad, to, verto, I turn. 42. Degree. F., degre, a step... | |
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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. 
