 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 - Сторінка 515редактори - 1806Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 стор.
...he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his finger stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught'the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye,... | |
 | Stephen W. Clark - 1855 - 258 стор.
...complaints of the labor era " The sweet remembrance of the just, SHALL FLOURISH when he sleeps in dust." " But when he caught the measure wild, The old man RAISED his head, and SMILED." "And when [he was] listening to this, he WOULD often CLASP his hands in ecstasy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 стор.
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. , Amid the strings his finger stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; o Francis Scott, Earl of Buccleuch, father of the Duchess. * Walter, Earl of Buccleuch, grandfather... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 стор.
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain warbling made, 85 And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 стор.
...according glee Was hlended into harmony. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head : But when he...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 стор.
...his fingers strayedj And an uncertain warbling made, 85 And oft he shook his hoary head. But \vhen he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1857 - 394 стор.
...lived 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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 стор.
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. 7. 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... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 стор.
...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...measure 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 стор.
...he wished, yet feared to trj The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lighted up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the... | |
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