...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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;...

...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,...

...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...