 | James White - 1858 - 316 pages
...had originally suggested the tale, and by this simple artifice the unity of the work is preserved. The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - 1858 - 216 pages
...Honour the king." " Sometimes the linnet piped his song, Sometimes the throstle whistled strong." " The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and old." " So he spoke, so I replied." " This is foolish, that is wise." " I was robbed of all my money ; for... | |
 | 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 I could lie down like a tired child. 3° And weep away the life of care Which I have Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren... | |
 | 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...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 hædersnavn i Yarrow... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves - 1927 - 264 pages
...also. And the second is the iambus or iambic, in which the stressed syllable follows the unstressed : The way was long ; the wind was cold The minstrel was infirm and old. Of the foot composed of one stressed and two unstressed syllables we have three types. The first is... | |
 | 1884 - 952 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
