 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 - Page 515edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...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. 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 pages
...of Monmoulh, who wa» In headed in iG85. * Fraocii Scon, E*rl of Buccleuch, fjibwr to (be ducbeii. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his race, and smiled; And lighten'd up his faded eye Witli all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft... | |
 | 1831 - 272 pages
...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 his...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 pages
...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 tip his faded eye, With nil a poet's ecstacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...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...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 - 344 pages
...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 - 528 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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