 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...thoughts thy waters teach — " Eternity, eternity, and power." THE LAST MINSTREL. SIR WALTER SCOTT. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...in their chairs of crimson placed, The Dame and she the warriors graced. SCOTT. &ty fast glinstrtl. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...actually flourished. The time occupied by the action is Throe Nights and Three Days. lNTRODUCTlON. 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...this world only as a diligence, in which they can travel to another. Napoleon I. MINSTREL- An Aged. l his eye, but cost Signs of remorse grey Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...on the 21st September 1832 he breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. THE MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...not every handsome knight, And dance not with the Water-Sprite ! From the Danish. CLV THE MINSTREL. 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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...is bless'd, and I lament no more, A wise good man, contented to be poor. Crabbe. THE LAST MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...was infirm and old ; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; Was carried by an orphan boy. The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | Selections - English poetry - 1863 - 192 pages
...and crown 'd To meet her lord , she took the tax away And built-herself an everlasting name . Scott. THE way was long • the wind was cold , The minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither 'd cheek, and tresses gray , Seeni'd 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. 
