 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 sider
...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... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 sider
...home. A graphic picture is given of the laft of the bards in Scott's Lay of the Laft Minftrel : "— 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,... | |
 | Thomas Stantial - 1859 - 352 sider
...ille minax." 2. Divide also the following English couplet, and mark the accented syllables : — " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old." 3. What else must be noted in the above English couplet besides its accented syllables ? 4. Distinguish... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...the action is three nights and three days. TO INTRODUCTION, THE way was long, the wind was cold Ine Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better dayIhe harp, his sole remaining joy ' Was carried by an orphan boy J The last of all the bards was... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1860 - 256 sider
...Common Octosyllabics. — Butler's Hudibras, Scott's poems, The Giaour, and other poems of Lord Byron. The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His haggard cheek and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1860 - 276 sider
...genius over prejudice and power, in every country, and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. The way was long — the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old. Modification of the subordinate element. Relation of coordinate elements. 2 Tell which are of the first,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 sider
...Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure lo the day. AIlDISON. M CIjt fast Ittinstril. ^3* HE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek and tresses grey Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sider
...in their chairs of crimson placed, The Dame and she the warriors graced. SCOTT. &ty fast glinstrtl. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 sider
...in verse at regular, intervals. §. In the following lines every other syllable is accented : — 1. The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old. 2. To arms ! to arms ! the clansmen roam O'er hill, and dale, and glen ; The chief is dead, and time... | |
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Seemed 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. 
