bard

• Our own word bard or minstrel stood in the same ambiguity. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• The very title is wrong; it should not be the Visions of the Sleeping Bard but the Visions of the Bard Sleep_, as the bard or prophet Sleep shows the author in a series of dreams--his visions of life, death, and hell, which form the three chapters of the book Borrow knew nothing of philology. —  George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
• 'Age cannot wither'; it was in very truth high privilege to have known him; to have met him face to face There come moments to all when we gladly put aside the masterpieces of the great bard, and find solace in simpler lays; such as, it may be, appear of kinship with the happenings of daily life. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
• Hogg warmly saluted his brother bard, and, taking both the strangers to his booth on the hill-side, the three spent the afternoon happily together, rejoicing over the viands of a small bag of provisions, and a bottle of milk, and another of whisky. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
• Mr. Gore accordingly sent for the bard, the Laureate of the Plains, as he called himself, who came immediately. —  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell

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