 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...the Rhine ; Their tasks the busy sewers ply, And all is mirth and revelry. THE LAST MINSTREL. Tn , 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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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 - Coast chages - 1848 - 360 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1848 - 772 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...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 - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...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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Was carried by an orphan boy : 'I'hc 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 and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. 
