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 faithless memory... Mythical Bards and The Life of William Wallace - Sayfa 5William Henry Schofield tarafından - 1920 - 381 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 sayfa
...strings his fingers strayed, 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 lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 sayfa
...citacy i In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, In the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank, in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| 1805 - 752 sayfa
...! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; - • The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, Jn the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| 1805 - 570 sayfa
...strings his fingers strayed, 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 imil'd ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's extacy. 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1806 - 342 sayfa
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and ages frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 sayfa
...strings his fingers strayed, 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 lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| 1806 - 502 sayfa
...the strings his fingers strayed. 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 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 sayfa
...raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestacy ! In varyirrg cadence, soft or strong-, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene, the ftiture lot, Hi» toib, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the ftiH... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 sayfa
...the strings his fingers strayed, 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 lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 sayfa
...the strings his fingers strayed, 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 lightened up his-faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
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