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  • He told her of the two-copper magicians, who performed by sleight of hand rather than by true magic, and of the Minstrel's Guildhall that was one of the best on Lyra.

    The Harp of Imach Thyssel Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1985

  • "Emereck Sterren of the Minstrel's Guild," Emereck replied, and glanced at Flindaran.

    The Harp of Imach Thyssel Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1985

  • The Harp of Imach Thyssel undoubtedly belongs in a Minstrel's Guildhall-if, indeed, it can be said to belong anywhere.

    The Harp of Imach Thyssel Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1985

  • He felt almost as wrung out as he had on the day he'd been tested for Minstrel's rank within the Guild.

    The Harp of Imach Thyssel Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1985

  • To give some idea of their variety, it may be mentioned that, amongst other poems of an entirely distinct character, there are religious pieces, many riddles, the legends of two saints, the Scald's or Ancient Minstrel's tale of his travels, and a poem on the 'Various Fortunes of Men.'

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • But if you wish to see how Homer could handle a ballad, turn up the eighth book of your Odyssey until you come to the Minstrel's son -- or if haply you are somewhat rusted in your Greek, and yearn for the aid of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

  • The sense of poetry was aroused in him as a boy, he said, by Paul Gerhardt's hymn "The woods are now at rest" (_Nun ruhen alle Wãlder_); the discovery of what poetry is he made in 1830, when he read Uhland's _Minstrel's Curse_ and perceived that the sole principle of art is not to write, like Schiller, eloquently about ideas, but "to make in a particular phenomenon the universal intuitively perceptible."

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • After this there is a Minstrel's Song, on the Restoration of Lord

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • Brought princes here, and Minstrel's sung their song,

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 Various

  • Have ye ever read a wonderful little ballad by Uhland, entitled 'The Minstrel's

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

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