 | Hannah More - Christian life - 1811 - 276 pages
...YOUNG LADY, on a course of ENGLISH POETRY. By J. AiKin.MD THE WORKS OF WALTER SCOTT : consisting of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. In three volumes, each embellished with an elegant plate. 350 cents. THE LADY'S CABINET OF POLITE LITER... | |
 | George Wilkins - English fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...the Manfred and Laura of Lord Byron, — Roderic, the Curse of Kahama, and Thalaba, of Southey, — The Lay of the last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake, of Walter Scott, — Moore's Lalla Rookh, — Campbell's E 2 Pleasures of Hope, — the Poems of Rogers... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...offer a few critical observations on the three most deservedly popular poems of Walter Scott, viz. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. ' The LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL is an endeavour to transfer the refinements of modern poetry to the... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...offer a few critical observations on the three most deservedly popular poems of Walter Scott, viz. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. The LATOP THE LAST MINBTHEL is an endeavour to transfer the refinements of modem poetry to the matter... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...poetical romances of Sir Walter Scott, there was a complete interregnum in the Parnassian Dynasty : the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and the " Lady of the Lake," produced, however, a total revolution in the popular taste ; their author was elevated by almost unanimous... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...romances of Sir Walter Scott, there was a complete interregnum in the Parnassian Dynasty: the VI PREFACE. "Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and the "Lady of the Lake," produced, however, a total revolution in the popular taste ; their author was elevated by almost unanimous... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...Scotland share in the exultation of the publishers who have successively sent among them cheap editions of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and the " Lady of the Lake ;" that they can buy them at a lower price than if the great minstrel who produced them were still... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...Scotland share in the exultation of the publishers who have successively sent among them cheap editions of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and the "Lady of the Lake;" that they can buy them at a lower price than if the great minstrel who produced them were still among... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1869 - 366 pages
...Walter Scett, born 1771. He was the author of many ballads and poetical works. His chief poems were " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," but he is more famous as the author of the " Waverley Novels." 17th. — Admiral Blake, died 1657.... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...quality, the poems ol" Scott sink like a driblet in the ocean. What are three clever metrical romances — the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel," ' Marmion,' and the ' Lady of the Lake ' (we drop at once the ' Lord of the Isles," and more reluctantly ' Rokeby,' from the list, because... | |
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The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. 
