 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1861 - 186 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 952 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1923 - 850 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Charles Homer Haskins - 1927 - 468 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1978 - 528 ページ
...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... | |
 | G. J. H. Van Gelder - 1982 - 248 ページ
...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'... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1983 - 618 ページ
...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... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1983 - 618 ページ
...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... | |
 | Bradley Deane - 2003 - 194 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
