 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.) - 1872 - 178 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...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.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 208 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...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... | |
 | W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 стор.
...heart, and gave him time. , . . THE LAST MINSTREL. 121 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 140 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...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | 1878 - 860 стор.
...his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1878 - 202 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...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... | |
 | Annie M. Lawrence - 1880 - 302 стор.
...and another picture from Scott passed before me : .' ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy I In varying measures, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along.' " Poor old man ! he tried... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 стор.
...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,... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 стор.
...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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, 90. With all a poet's ecstasy ! G In varying cadence, soft or strong, He... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 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...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... | |
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