 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...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Side 537redigeret af - 1806Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 sider
...much he 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...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his face, and smil'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 sider
...much he 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 head. 1 Anne, Dot-he*! af BuoHmch and MOB moo tb, representative o tho ancient lord* of ll.inl.-ucb, and... | |
 | 1831 - 272 sider
...please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, "1 And an uncertain warbling made — > And oft he shook...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft and strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 sider
...much he 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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd tip his faded eye, With nil a poet's ecstacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 sider
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 528 sider
...such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the Last Minstrel, — ' — when he 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... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 344 sider
...such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the Last Minstrel, — ' — when he 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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...melody. Amid the strings his lingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made. And oft he shook his hoar}' head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his tace and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 374 sider
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he 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... | |
 | Miss Browne - 1839 - 314 sider
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the eflect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he 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... | |
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