 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 - 224 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 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1923 - 352 pages
...difference in movement between Then the | little | Hi'ajwatha Learned of | every | bi'rd its | language. and The way | was long, | the wind | was cold ; The mi'n|strel was | infi'rm | and old. which justifies marking the division in such a way as to suggest that the cadence is best represented... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - 1924 - 406 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 - 1180 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 - 1178 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... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...da J. Logie Robertson (Oxford University Press, 1910). La vita raminga dell'ultimo Menestrello (1). THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withep'd cheek, and tresses gray, (1) n bardo a cui Scott fa cantare la storia d'amore fra Cranstoun... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Watson Fowler - 1926 - 762 pages
...eight-syllable '. The usual name of the 8-syl. rhyming iambic metre used in Hudibras, The Lady of the Lake, &c. The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm & old. ode (Lit.) ; ' song '. The OED definition of the word in its prevailing modern sense may be... | |
 | Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 pages
...long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infinn 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 sung of Border chivalry. Wordsworth tiltaler Scott med det nye... | |
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