 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sivua
...tale, and j tended greatly to cause the popularity of the poem. The minstrel is thus described : — that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained...flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. Tie mom, but scarce dey ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 sivua
...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 tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 sivua
...dread, fathomless, alone. THE LAST MINSTREL: His address to his Native Country. SIR WALTER SCOTT.* 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,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 sivua
...peep, And list the tale that love is telling ! THE LAST MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was coid, The Minstrel was Infirm and old; His withered cheek,...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 Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 sivua
...roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering LIGHT. Idem, 9. The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. Scott. 10. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 sivua
...wind was cold, The minstrel — was infirm, and old ; Hi* wither'd cheek — and tresses gray, Heem'd to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried— by an orphan boy." Ve et the tender office Innf engage, To rnck the cradle of reposing ajrt ; iVirh lenient arts — extend... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 sivua
...the action is three Nights and Three Days. 1 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIRST. INTRODUCTION. 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,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sivua
...restore, And eyelids that are seal'd in death Shall wake, to close no more, PEABODY. THE LAST MINSTREL. 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... | |
 | 1845 - 408 sivua
...first class boys, in parsing a verse (which is written on the slates), after the following example. "The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; The harp, his sole remaining JOT, Was carried by an orphan boy." article, because it limits the signification... | |
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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. 
