 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
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 614 sider
...soldiers. The effect upon the men was marvellous. " The present scene, their future lot, Their toils, their wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost > In the full tide of song were lost/* The pleasant memories of singing schools and sleigh rides were revived. They thought of their sisters,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 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...responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. THE CAMP. [From Marmion, Canto IV.] [Marmion and Sir David Lindesay survey the Scottish Camp from Blackford... | |
 | 1883 - 778 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...responsive rung, Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. * Lockhart's Lift of Scott, u. »& • *«*** Here paused the harp ; and with its swell '1 he master's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 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...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'T was thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. THE feast was over in Branksome tower.* And the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 sider
...his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, lie swept the soanding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'T was thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. THE feast was over in Branksome tower.* And the... | |
 | 1883 - 142 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...toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, an age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void , The poet's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 sider
...I>urb*ea. 3 w&Jter. EirIoíBoecleacb,fr*adÍAtheroítb*I>achee, »ad »tc|«br*tcJ wjtrtor. In tho full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung. Twos thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. THE feast was over in Brnnksome tower,* And tho Lad... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 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...responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. THE CAMP. [From Marmion, Canto IV.] [Marnrion and Sir David Lindesay survey the Scottish Camp from Blackford... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 sider
...his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sc'anding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'T was thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. over in Branksome THE feast was tower.* And the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 630 sider
...his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the so'anding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'T was thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. THE feast was over in Branksome tower.* And the... | |
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