Peter followed with the harp, and closed the door after him as he went out.
She touched the strings of her instrument--the ancient harp, as she had said, of the pictured St.
But he could not; he had a
harp and he often tried to play on it; but his clumsy fingers only made such discord that his companions laughed at him and mocked him, and called him a madman because he would not give it up, but would rather sit apart by himself, with his arms about his
harp, looking up into the sky, while they gathered around their fire and told tales to wile away their long night vigils as they watched their sheep on the hills.
Little John and Much the miller's son were out together on a foraging expedition when they espied the same young man; at least, they thought it must be he, for he was clad in scarlet and carried a
harp in his hand.
Vanni's
harp came in silvery ripples through the blackness of the dusty-smelling night; then the violins fell in--one of them was almost like a flute.
I told Allan a-Dale, the northern minstrel, that he would damage the
harp if he touched it after the seventh cup, but he would not be controlled Friend, I drink to thy successful performance.''
Edmund spoke of the
harp as his favourite instrument, and hoped to be soon allowed to hear her.
He closed his eyes and rested his head on the frame of the
harp. His fingers gently touched the strings while he was thinking.
While he lay perdu in Steward's stateroom, his voice was the one thing that was not to be heard, so Kwaque was forced to seek the solace of his jews'
harp in the sweltering heat of the gratings over the fire-room.
Arriving in Perth the day after the festivities at Swanhaven, Bishopriggs proceeded to the
Harp of Scotland--at which establishment for the reception of travelers he possessed the advantage of being known to the landlord as Mrs.
At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only
harp, in all Muggleton.
The young people, at the countess' instigation, gathered round the clavichord and
harp. Julie by general request played first.
"'King of Lochlin, let thy face brighten with gladness, and thine ear delight in the
harp. Dreadful as the storm of thine ocean thou hast poured thy valor forth; thy voice has been like the voice of thousands when they engage in war.
His life was spent far from the court and away from the sounds of civil warfare, in the endeavour to set himself in harmony with the universe -- to become, in fact, like an Aeolian
harp through which all the cords of nature might sweep at will.
Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's
harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
