 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
 | English essays - 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...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... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - English poetry - 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,...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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 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...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... | |
 | 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...forgot ; Cold 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 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... | |
 | 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...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void, The IH ret's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 354 pages
...caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The jiresent scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
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