 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void,...  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 16af Walter Scott - 1807 - 340 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...grandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrai ~ior. And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void, The IH ret's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, Twos thus the LATEST MIHSTREL... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 sider
...cold diffidence, and age's frost, in the full tide of soul were lost; each blank in faithless memory's void, the poet's glowing thought supplied ; and, while...responsive rung, 'twas thus the latest Minstrel sung : — EARNESTNESS— LOUD TOHZ — TIME (JOICKER. BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, who never... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 sider
...old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. 100 CANTO I. 1 THE feast was over in Branksome tower, A* And the Ladye had gone to her secret bower... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 342 sider
...caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his heart responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.1 1 [" In the very first rank of poetical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 sider
...old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory Toid, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 sider
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence soft or strong, He swept the sounding...age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each hlank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplicd ; And, while his heart responsive... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 354 sider
...caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The jiresent scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 sider
...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lighted up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, With eloquence the Minstrel sung. FROM SCOTT. CCXLI.— THE LAST MINSTREL.— No. II. IN the preceding... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 sider
...author should haue toasted, in imitation and And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy I In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied; And, wliile liis harp responsive rung, T was thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.4 fan of tljc Cast íllinstrcl.... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 sider
...The old man raised his face and smiled, And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...full tide of song were lost. Each blank in faithless memory's void The poet's glowing thought supplied, And while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the... | |
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