 THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.  A System of English Grammar - Page 165by Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 160 pages
...long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy; The last of all the bards was he, Who sang of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859
...thoughts thy waters teach — " Eternity, eternity, and power." THE LAST MINSTREL. SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE WAY was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - 1924 - 373 pages
...turning to the most celebrated extracts of the poems, such as the portrait of the last minstrel : — " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...was infirm and old ; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1144 pages
...talks as it's most used to do. SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL INTRODUCTION The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day! their date was fled,... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1144 pages
...shame should this be true!) SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL J INTRODUCTION is delightful world. along Through beds of sand and matted rushy So, on the bloody sand, Sohr tresses~gray Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byjan... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912
...merciful man is merciful to his ass," observed my sententious friend. " Bring him by all means ! ' The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy ' ; and I have no doubt the orphan boy can get some cold victuals in the kitchen, while the Senatus... | |
 | 1884
...idicule D. 6. 0 ctangula R. 7. S tilett 0. 8. E xcer P. OWN PUZZLES (page 317). MISSING-LETTER PUZ2LE. " The way was long, the wind was cold, ' The minstrel...was infirm and old ; His withered cheek and tresses grey Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | 1923
...itself in his prosaic temperament. His most celebrated lines show the quality of his compo-sition:— The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey: — If Iliou would'st view fair Melrose aright,... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1978 - 520 pages
...The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresies gray, Seemed to have known a belter day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he. Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their dale was fled,... | |
 | G. J. H. Van Gelder - 1982 - 229 pages
...style. . . each element in a description has its own emotional impact independently of other elements. 'The way was long, the wind was cold, the minstrel was infirm and old' is poetic style; 'The way was long and the wind was cold, while the minstrel was elderly and infirm'... | |
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