...sorrow and shame should this be true!) SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL J bloom, and this delightful world. along Through beds...sand and matted rushy So, on the bloody sand, Sohr tresses~gray Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byjan...

...da J. Logie Robertson (Oxford University Press, 1910). La vita raminga dell'ultimo Menestrello (1). THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withep'd cheek, and tresses gray, (1) n bardo a cui Scott fa cantare la storia d'amore fra Cranstoun...

...eight-syllable '. The usual name of the 8-syl. rhyming iambic metre used in Hudibras, The Lady of the Lake, &c. The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm & old. ode (Lit.) ; ' song '. The OED definition of the word in its prevailing modern sense may be...

...also. And the second is the iambus or iambic, in which the stressed syllable follows the unstressed : The way was long ; the wind was cold The minstrel was infirm and old. Of the foot composed of one stressed and two unstressed syllables we have three types. The first is...

...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,...

...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...

...opening premise of the poem, which sets itself at the moment of transition to a more modern world: The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray, Seern'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy,...