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"Minstrel" Quotes from Famous Books

... you remember, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, the song of Albert Graeme, which has something about Carlisle's wall in ...

— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe

... his silence was eloquent of the inherent generosity of the man, even as his poetic outburst of a few minutes before had been eloquent of the minstrel in him. She rode in silence, regarding him critically from time to time, and when they came to the tree where the panther hung he gave her the calf to hold while he deftly skinned the dead marauder, tied the pelt ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... against him. As I was swimming alongside, I heard all that went on. 'Since your minds are made up,' says Arion, 'at least let me get my mantle on, and sing my own dirge; and then I will throw myself into the sea of my own accord.'—The sailors agreed. He threw his minstrel's cloak about him, and sang a most sweet melody; and then he let himself drop into the water, never doubting but that his last moment had come. But I caught him up on my back, and swam to ...

— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata

... as football, cricket, tennis and quoits, for which there was plenty of room, and the British authorities provided recreation huts, and goal posts and other implements. The Boers also amused themselves with amateur theatricals, club-swinging, and even formed a minstrel troup called ...

— Cecil Rhodes - Man and Empire-Maker • Princess Catherine Radziwill

... toying with a sword, Nor minstrel's, laid across a lute; Chiefs, uplifted to the Lord When all the kings of ...

— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various

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