I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and… — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! — John Keats Copy Share Image
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
