I once heard a minstrel band play in front of the hall, on a wet evening, when there was no prospect of an audience, and there was such an air of mournfulness in it that I remember it yet.
The different objects in the church, including the organ, seemed to look at the pair in good humor because of their gayety; perhaps the organ was feeling gay itself, from recollections of the minstrel band.
It is dreadful to imitate minstrel music in a church, but you have spoken so kindly of my playing that I will try it, if you care to listen.
But there was more than joy in the music; it changed so suddenly into the plaintive strain of the minstrel baritone as to cause Allan Dorris to start.
BLIND HARRY, a Scotch minstrel of the fifteenth century, blind from infancy.
Not so, my Lord: it is so wild a tale of true love that I can sometimes scarce believe a minstrel did not sing it to me!
She is probably the child of some minstrel or troubadour," said the Prince.
But you speak not of your sweet lady:--was she not kind to the poor minstrel girl?
Here first the services of the poor minstrel girl became really valuable to her protector; for notwithstanding the proximity of the English coast, not a soul in the hostel could speak aught else but the Flemish tongue.
He hesitated for an instant, asking himself whether it were worth his while to pursue this course any farther, for a low minstrel girl, against such unexpected resistance.
Perhaps they have some poor minstrel within, and are keeping up his heart with kindness; for Julien is a bountiful dame, and the reeve, though somewhat hard upon the young knaves, is no way pinched when there is a sad face at his door.
Without farther words, Woodville quitted the lodge; the porter hurried on to open the gates, and the young gentleman went out with the people who had borne or accompanied the poor old minstrel thither.
Tis a charge, noble sir; and a poor minstrel girl is not fit for a high gentleman's train.
The parting then came between Ella Brune and Richard of Woodville; and bitter was the moment to the poor minstrel girl.
The animal, on these occasions, was usually preceded by a minstrel or two, and carried a monkey or baboon upon his back.
Perrot de la Laund, minstrel to lord Hugh de Nevill, received twenty shillings for performing his minstrelsy before the king.
Bravery of a Minstrelin the Conqueror's Army--VII.
The celebratedminstrel Taillefer, who came into England with William the Norman, was a warrior as well as a musician.
They were, however, called harpers by the English rhymists; but the Norman name minstrel was much more commonly used.
The Norman minstrel Tallefer, before the commencement of the battle at Hastings, cast his lance into the air three times, and caught it by the head in such a surprising manner, that the English thought it was done by the power of enchantment.
Austria, was discovered by his favourite minstrel Blondel, a celebrated troubadour, through the means of a poem composed by the poet, in conjunction with his royal master.
For the first offence the minstrellost his minstrelsy, and for the second he was obliged to forswear his profession, and was never to appear again as a minstrel.
Some of the larger companies have a fiddler with them, and a Jack in the Green, as well as a Lord and Lady of the May, who follow the minstrel with great stateliness, and dance as occasion requires.
The reader will have no difficulty in believing that this poem was meant to be recited by a wandering minstrel to the hearers that gathered round him at nightfall.
In the churchyard was buried William Newton, the Minstrel of the Peak, and Samuel Slack, who in the last quarter of the eighteenth century was the most popular bass singer in England.
The minstrel gallery dated from the year 1354, and many musical instruments used in the fourteenth century were represented by carvings on the front, as being played by twelve angels.
So says the chronicler Leofric, the minstrel and priest.
A nobleminstrel he was, and a brave warrior, though our foe.
And you will not die: you will be great and glorious, and your name will be sung by scald and minstrel through many a land, far and wide.
And this is the episode of the Cornish Princess, as told by Leofric of Bourne, the cunning minstrel and warlike priest.
He took it, looking her steadily in the face; and it seemed to the minstrel as if their hands lingered together round the cup-handle, and that he saw the glitter of a ring.
That blow," said Ascelin, "will be sung hereafter by minstrel and maiden as the last blow of the last Englishman.
But began is scarcely the term that we could suppose the Minstrel to use.
Major uses the most honourable term that he could select, to show that even the most exalted in the kingdom did not deem themselves degraded by admitting the Minstrel into their presence, or by listening to his poetical narrative.
Here the Minstrelintroduces his account of the savage transaction ascribed to Edward I.
As the venerable Minstrel could not himself have written his poem, succeeding ages have never had it in their power to view him in his proper character.
Or could theMinstrel allude to Celaeno, one of the fabled harpies?
Although I cannot make sense of the line, there seems to be an allusion to the Fawns of heathen mythology; as the illiterateMinstrel might allude to the Nymphs in the term Nympheus.
Here, it would seem, the learned writer fights the poor Minstrel with his own weapons.
For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable it to endure trial and temptation; yet, amidst it all, would the minstrel sing.
Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the clouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis.
As a minstrel I'm dressed, And not in such plight Could I appear In hotel candle light Here to sleep I will lay me This warm summer night.
As she looks she hears the voice of a roving minstrel who is approaching.
Thou sayest well, said king Mark, and because thou art a minstrel thou shalt go quit, but I charge thee hie thee fast out of my sight.
The next day they did even as the minstrel had said, and when the minstrel began to sing the Khan paid no more heed at all to the frog or the parrot, but listened only to the strange minstrel's words.
Like a rock she sat, letting the fickle populace drift by to minstrel show and snake den.
I gave theminstrel a considerable present of beads, and he went away rejoicing, singing and twanging his instrument to the discomfiture of all our enemies.
High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate, And Emont's murmur mingled with the Song.
There is proof enough that, by the reign of Elizabeth, the printer was elbowing the minstrel out into the gutter.
Ye'll gie the third to the minstrel That's harping in the ha', And he'll play gude luck to the bonny boy That comes frae the greenwood shaw.
The Trouveres were minstrel poets belonging to Northern France.
The love of music in these countries had been growing among the people from the days of their minstrel poets and their wandering musicians.
The All-Star Imperial Minstrel Troupes, and the Uncle Tom shows, are the graveyards of the private cars.
Here comes thy minstrel with an offering Pressed from the ripened fruit of my fond heart.
The ponderous pundit, Hugh MacHugh, Dublin's most brilliant scribe and editor and that minstrel boy of the wild wet west who is known by the euphonious appellation of the O'Madden Burke.
