 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...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Side 515redigeret af - 1806Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 sider
...Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook lib hoary heaiL But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; Hve of the snrient Lorrb of ПпсЫс-пгЬ, anil wi-low of the nnf'ortnnale James, Duke of Monmimih,... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 sider
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 sider
...he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the stnngs his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighteu'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 sider
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his ringers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...wished, yet feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head; But when he caught the measure wild, TnA rtlfl mar* Vaicarl Viie fetnt\ **~-.,J ___il_ »**v VAVt. uzc*U iCUOGU U*O litUC, UUU. And lightened... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 sider
...brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when lie caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 sider
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy I . In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sider
...the strings hia fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary head j But, when he caught the measure wild, The old man...smiled, And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong, lie swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 sider
...long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray 'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft Jie shook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his head and smiled. And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstacy. In varying cadence,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 sider
...Duchess. t Walter, Earl of Bucclench, grandfather of the Duchess, and a cde united wai rior. But when be caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face,...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
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