 | 1845 - 408 sider
...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 sider
...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 sider
...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 pray, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...or the Rhine ; Their tasks the busy sewers ply, And all is mirth and revelry. THE LAST MINSTREL. TRE way was long, the wind was cold. The minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd check and tresses gray Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1848 - 360 sider
...your hair, To come or gae by Carterhaugh, For young Tamlene is there." Border Minstrelsy, ii. 187. " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. * * * He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 sider
...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, Was carried by an orphan boy. o The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, welladay ! their date was; fled,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 sider
...air, Cried, "Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land !" 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 sider
...digna lint TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES, EARL OF DALKEITH, THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION. THE way was long, the wind was cold. The Minstrel was inlirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'cl to have known a better day; The harp,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 sider
...the 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 sider
...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... | |
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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. For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; •And he, neglected... 
