 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 871825Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...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. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; No longer, courted and caressed,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...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. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; 12 INTRODUCTION. No longer... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; A 2 No longer courted and... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed,... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Border chivalry. Fur, well- a- day! their date was fled, Sis tuneful brethren all were dead ; t j4nd he neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more , on prancing palfery borne, He varolled, light as lark at morn; Ab longer courted and caressed,... | |
 | John Russell - Austria - 1824 - 438 pages
...beyond our reach, though blazing in our zenith, as to those who only caught his more distant rays. Of the Weimar sages and poets Gothe alone survives....career. At once a man of genius and a man of the world, Gothe has made his way as an accomplished courtier no less than as a great poet. He has spent in Weimar... | |
 | Germany - 1825 - 432 pages
...in our zenith, as to those who caught only his more distant rays. Of the sages and poets of Weimar, Gothe alone survives. One after another, he has sung...career. At once a man of genius and a man of the world, Gothe has made his way as an accomplished courtier, no less than as a great poet. He has spent in Weimar... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...are fled." But, lonely as he now Ss in the world of genius it could be less justly said of him thari of any other man, that he, . -. •*..••. ' neglected...career. At once a man of genius and a man of the world, Gothe has made his way as an accomplished courtier, no less than as a great poet. He has spent in Weimar... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...of border chivalry ; 2 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. 3 No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed,... | |
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