 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 void,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 3501810Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sayfa
...raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varving cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords...all forgot : Cold diffidence and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 sayfa
...his fingere etray'd, And an uncertain warbling made,'' before " the measure wild" was caught, and " In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along." His youthful admiration of Langhorne has been rendered memorable by his own record of his first and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 sayfa
...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 the sounding...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied.... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 306 sayfa
...feast were suspended, the aged minstrel told his legendary tale ; charming the listening warriors, as " In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along," and sang, now of the ecstasies of love — now of the thunders of battle. In many respects "old times... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 sayfa
...The old man raised his face and smiled; And lighten'd up his faded eye, "With all a poet's ecstasy! file of hi) wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 sayfa
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; 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, the future lot, His toil, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of soul were... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sayfa
...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 the sounding chords along Tin- present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 sayfa
...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 the sounding...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full lido of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sayfa
...his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadenee, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along:...future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidenee, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faitbless memory void,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1851 - 568 sayfa
...Last, in that it procured him a hospitable and honourable reception at the houses of the great — In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along, Each blank in faithless memory void The poet's glowing thoughts supplied. Scott. He arose in a rude... | |
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