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,... Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Page 351by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 750 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...old man rais d his fare and ginil'd ; And lighten'd up his laded eye, With all the poel'a ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while nis harp responsive rung, TwM thus llie LATEST iM INSTREI. Bung." p. 6.— 8. We add, chiefly on account... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...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 pages
...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...full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied. " CALEDONIA, STERN AND WILD." Breathes there the... | |
| Gallery - 1848 - 306 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
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