 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 Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - 537 페이지 편집 - 1806전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 페이지
...When he kept court at 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 extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along; The present scene,... | |
 | 1805 - 570 페이지
...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 502 페이지
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 페이지
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he .wished yet feared to try 'The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...shook his hoary head. But when he caught the .measure wHd, The old man raised his face and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 페이지
...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... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 페이지
...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 extaey ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 페이지
...unfortunate James, Duke of Moumouth, who was beheaded in 1685. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his...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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 페이지
...never thought to sing again : And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long forgotten melody. 19 Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he 20 caught the measure wild, The old man raised his head and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 페이지
...who -•* brhoadrU IB i6IS. > Front it Stolt, Earl of Bancleucb. filtirr lo lbi> durbcu. But when lie caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up bis faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | 1828 - 814 페이지
...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 exstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords aloug ; The present scene,... | |
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