 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...feudal tale, and tended greatly to cause the popularity of the poem. The minstrel is thus described: — d, and blotted it out for ever. My uncle Toby went to his bureau ; put his withered cheek and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | 1923 - 850 страници
...itself in his prosaic temperament. His most celebrated lines show the quality of his composition : — 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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страници
...tale, and j tended greatly to cause the popularity of the poem. The minstrel is thus described : — that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet withered cheek and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better dey ; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 страници
...Funeral Anthem Dies Iree Page 66 69 70 71 72 74 77 79 79 80 81 82 84 ENGLISH POETRY. THE LAST MINSTEEL. 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 страници
...eight syllables in each line, (called therefore octosyllabic,} of which the following is an example : " 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, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 страници
...restore, And eyelids that are seal'd in death Shall wake, to close no more, PEABODY. 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 joy, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 страници
...the action is three Nights and Three Days. 1 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIRST. INTRODUCTION. 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, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 страници
...wind was cold, The minstrel — was infirm, and old ; Hi* wither'd cheek — and tresses gray, Heem'd to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried— by an orphan boy." Ve et the tender office Innf engage, To rnck the cradle of reposing ajrt ; iVirh lenient arts — extend... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 страници
...dread, fathomless, alone. THE LAST MINSTREL: His address to his Native Country. SIR WALTER SCOTT.* 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 страници
...roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering LIGHT. Idem, 9. 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,... | |
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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... 
