 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 lay of the last minstrel, a poem - Pagina 16door sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1805 - 540 pagina’s
...(hook his hoary head. But. when he caught the meafure wild, The old man raiftd his face, and fmiled , And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong,. He fwept the founding chords along ; The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils,... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pagina’s
...tried to tun« his harp in vain/ At length, encouraged by the kindness of his illustrious hostess, ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure wild, The old man raised his face and imil'd ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's extacy. 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pagina’s
...harp a tale /of arms and chivalry, in which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along j The present scene,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pagina’s
...the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, Andan uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,... | |
 | 1806 - 502 pagina’s
...speaker, arid to the occasion. The Liist Minstrel is thus modestly, but auspiciously, introduced. ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain...measure wild, The old man raised his face and smiled j And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pagina’s
...harp a tale of arm» and c!iiv*bjs*o which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made— And oft he shook his hoary bead. Aut when he caught the measure «¡Ы, The old man raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pagina’s
...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 ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pagina’s
...When he kept court in Holy rood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his-faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pagina’s
...feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his lingers strayed, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pagina’s
...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 ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
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