 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
 | Encyclopaedia - 1851 - 568 pages
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...old man rais d his face and smil'd ; And lighten'd up his laded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong. He swept the sounding...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, "1'wae thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung." p. 6. — 8. We add. chiefly on account of their brevity, the... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 332 pages
...the introduction of favourite passages from other poems, and when, like Scott's " Last Minstrel," " In varying cadence soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along, Each blank in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied." This is in perfect accordance... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chorda along; The present scene, the future lot, His toils,...tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, wliile his harp responsive rung, Twas thus... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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...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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft and strong, He swept the sounding chords along j The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his...diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were tost ; Each blank in faithless memory's void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And while his harp... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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 ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...thuittd tuise »i.»fcrf, in tmi'Mtion and And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...along; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, lu's \raii ts, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 326 pages
...cadence, soft or strong, Ho swep/ 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 oj" soul were lost; Each blank in faithless memory's void The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...grandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrai ~ior. 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 IH ret's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, Twos thus... | |
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