 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.  Johnsonian age - Էջ 295Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 էջ
...bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, SCOTT. THE LAST MINSTREL. THE w ay was long, the wind was coiil The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withered cheek,...orphan boy ; The last of all the Bards was he. Who suner of Border chivalry. For, well ;iy ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 էջ
...personages actually flourished The time occupied by the action is three nights am! three days. INTRODUCTION. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old; His wilhei'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 էջ
...rp. TUNEFUL ; long « in tune, not oo. BRETHREN ; give e its short sound ; do not call it bruthrin. THE way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and o\d ; His withered cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 էջ
...Well-a-day. Fled. Borne. Syntax. Cheek. Who sung of. Light as lark. Unpremeditated lay, Peasant's ear. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...all the Bards was he, Who sung of border chivalry.* For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; , And he, neglected and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 էջ
...with any virtues, obedience, or even servility to superiors, be of the number." THE LAST MINSTREL.1 The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled ; His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 էջ
...cause the popularity of the poem. The minstrel is thus described : — The way was long, the wind wa» e gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the...in the seat to faith assigned, Where ask is have, ; For, well-a-day ! their date was flij ; His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 394 էջ
...eight syllables in each line, (called therefore octosyllabic,} of which the following is an example : " 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 joy,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 էջ
...any virtues, unless obedience, or even servility to superiors, be of the number." THE LAST MINSTREL.i The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; Hi- withered cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 էջ
.... . , . . . . 578 Hellvellyn, .........................579 LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. INTRODUCTION. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel...all the bards was he. Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed,... | |
 | 1852 - 782 էջ
...confirmation of these remarks, we give a considerable part of the introduction to the whole poem : — "The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and treaees gray, Seem'd to have known а betler day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
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