...confidence. 1. The — sailor was found clinging to an — . 2. The trees are covered with — frost. o 3. ' The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and — .' 4. ' But break my heart, for I muat — my tongue.' 5. ' They launched the long galley, and...

...the wind was cold, JL 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 aU the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful...

...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...

...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,...

...troubadour, and to make of him in the lesser households not a permanence but an occasional visitor—"the way was long, the wind was cold, the minstrel was infirm and old"! Enough, in any case, to make the court a potential source 1 EG Browne, Arabian Medicine (Cambridge,...

...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...sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their dale was fled, His tuneful brethren alt were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with...

...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'...

...your dear longed-for visit. t Parodying the stari of Sir Walter Scott's The L^y of the Lait Minitrel: 'The way was long, the wind was cold. / The Minstrel was infirm and old; / . . .The harp, his sole remaining joy, / Was carried by an orphan bov' 2 Four Galswortby poems appeared...

...Lay of the Last .Minstrel: 'The way was long, the wind was cold, / The Minstrel was infirm and old; / ...The harp, his sole remaining joy, / Was carried by an orphan boy'. 2 Four Galsworthy poems appeared in the June number (2, 411-13); the second is 'Rose and Yew'. ' Galsworthy...

...for himself: in the poem's introduction the eponymous minstrel, a thinly disguised figure for Scott ("The last of all the bards was he, / Who sung of Border chivalry") is patronized by Anne Scott, first Duchess of Buccleuch and ancestor of the Buccleuchs who would be...