| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...«r«t edition in MDCCLXV. [ xxi 3 AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. I- 1 HE MINSTRELS (A) were an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves, or others *. They also appear to have accompanied their songs... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...given an inaccurate, and somewhat exaggerated account, of the English Minstrels, whom he defined to be an " order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and musie, and sung to the harp the verses which they themselves composed." • The reverend editor of... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 524 pages
...from the first edition in MDCCLXV. AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. I. THE MINSTRELS (A) were an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and musie, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves, or others.* They also appear to have accompanied... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others."* In a very learned and elegant essay upon... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." l In a very learned and elegant essay upon... | |
| Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." * In a very learned and elegant essay upon... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." 1 In a very learned and elegant essay upon... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...given an inaccurate, and somewhat exaggerated account, of the English Minstrels, whom he defined to be an "order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp the verses which they themselves composed." The reverend editor of the Rcliques produced... | |
| 1839 - 534 pages
...who were to administer by their skill to the amusement of their patrons. ' The minstrels,' observes Percy, ' were an order of men in the middle ages who...subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves or others.' They also appear to have accompanied their songs... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 1032 pages
...who were to administer by their skill to the amusement of their patrons. 'The minstrels,' observes Percy, 'were an order of men in the middle ages who...subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." They also appear to have accompanied their songs... | |
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