 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...  The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 10von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 Seiten
...melody. Amid the strings his lingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made. And oft he shook his hoar}' head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his tace and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 374 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Miss Browne - 1839 - 314 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the eflect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made; And oft he shook his...hoary head : But when he caught the measure wild, Tin; old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 392 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...lived in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — 'when he caught the measure wild; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 Seiten
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. — a circum^tancc which serves to identify the scene...following story : — " It was on a dark rainy ni be caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 Seiten
...he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. „ Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his...wild, 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... | |
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