 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 - Página 3621810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1831 - 255 páginas
...and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft and strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd tip his faded eye, With nil a poet's ecstacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future loi, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835
...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...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, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 443 páginas
...The old man raised his tace and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...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;... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838
...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...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839
...his fingers stray'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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839
...his fingers stray'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... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 288 páginas
...old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 823 páginas
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 624 páginas
...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...all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each hlank, in faithless memory void. The poet's glowing thought supplied;... | |
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