 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 str.
...entertained the Minstrel. This may be spoken by itself or in connection with the succeeding exercise. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...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... | |
 | Louis Direy - 1858 - 186 str.
...depths with bubbling groan, Gray. Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. TETRAMETER. The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...infirm and old. His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day. TRIMETER. The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze,... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 str.
...talks as it's most used to do. SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL INTRODUCTION I could lie down like a tired child. 3° And weep away the life of care Which I have of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; I0 And... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 str.
...shame should this be true!) SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL J INTRODUCTION is delightful world. along Through beds of 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... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 str.
...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 570 str.
...merciful man is merciful to his ass," observed my sententious friend. " Bring him by all means ! ' The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy ' ; and I have no doubt the orphan boy can get some cold victuals in the kitchen, while the Senatus... | |
 | Henry Watson Fowler - 1926 - 762 str.
...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... | |
 | Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 str.
...long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infinn and old; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining...orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. Wordsworth tiltaler Scott med det nye hædersnavn i Yarrow Revisited (fra 1831):... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves - 1927 - 264 str.
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 952 str.
...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... | |
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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. 
