 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 - Page 3501810Full view - About this book
 | William Adam - Derbyshire (England) - 1843 - 490 pages
...Kendal green, With gorget closed of silver sheen," was playing on his native harp in ancient strain, cl In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along." Over his dress he wore a silver harp and silver medals, which had been presented to him for his skill,... | |
 | Literature - 1843 - 676 pages
...Rizzio could touch so well, that its tones vibrated even with the strings of her sorrowful heart ; "In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along." How beautifully that instrument sounded in the silent night, through the time-honoured and gloomy apartments... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...old man rais'd his face and smi1'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the 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 mem'ry void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept tho sounding chords along : The present scene, the future...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 Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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...all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of soul were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 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 tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his fuded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...lot. His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold dif1idence and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...faded eye With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding cords along ; The present scene, the future lot, His toils,...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 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...forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost. Each blank, in faithless mem'ry void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...old man raised his face and smil'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's eestasy ! 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 mem'ry void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
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