THE TROUBADOUR.
BY
L. E. L.
AUTHOR OF THE IMPROVISATRICE
LONDON
PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON & CO.
5 WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL
1825
T H ET R O U B A D O U R;
CATALOGUE OF PICTURES,
AND
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
BY L. E. L.
AUTHOR OF THE IMPROVISATRICE.
The age of chivalry is gone.
Burke.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON & CO.
5, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL;
AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1825.
TO
WILLIAM JERDAN, ESQ.
THIS WORK,
SO MUCH INDEBTED TO HIS KIND SURVEILLANCE,
IS INSCRIBED,
BY
THE OBLIGED AUTHOR,
L. E. L.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Poem of The Troubadour is founded
upon an ancient custom of Provence, according
to which a festival was held, and the minstrel
who bore away the prize from his competitors
was rewarded, by the lady chosen to preside,
with a Golden Violet. It is hardly necessary
to say, that this makes only the conclusion of the
tale, —all the earlier parts being given to chivalrous
adventure and to description characteristic
of the age.
L. E. L.
Contents. | ||
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Page | ||
THE TROUBADOUR | 1 | |
POETICAL SKETCHES OF MODERN PICTURES. | ||
PORTRAIT OF A LADY | 257 | |
JULIET AFTER THE MASQUERADE | 260 | |
THE COMBAT | 265 | |
THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING | 267 | |
THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY | 272 | |
A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK | 278 | |
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND | 280 | |
CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER | 284 | |
LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE | 289 | |
FAIRIES ON THE SEA SHORE | 292 | |
A GIRL AT HER DEVOTIONS | 297 | |
NYMPH AND ZEPHYR | 301 | |
SKETCHES FROM HISTORY. | ||
THE SULTANA'S REMONSTRANCE | 305 | |
HANNIBAL'S OATH | 309 | |
ALEXANDER AND PHILLIP | 312 | |
THE RECORD | 317 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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