 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 strani
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
 | 1806 - 502 strani
...speaker, arid to the occasion. The Liist Minstrel is thus modestly, but auspiciously, introduced. ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain...the measure wild, The old man raised his face and smiled j And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 strani
...harp a tale /of arms and chivalry, in which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure 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,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 strani
...the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, Andan uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary...the measure 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,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 strani
...harp a tale of arm» and c!iiv*bjs*o which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made— And oft he shook his hoary bead. Aut when he caught the measure «¡Ы, The old man raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 strani
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he .wished yet feared to try 'The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...shook his hoary head. But when he caught the .measure wHd, The old man raised his face and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 strani
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure 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,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 strani
...When he kept court in Holy rood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 strani
...feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his lingers strayed, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he...the measure 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 strani
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...the measure 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,... | |
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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... 
