The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Troubadour.

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.

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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.
		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