 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his ringers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...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 - Poets, English - 1839 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Miss Browne - Poets, English - 1839 - 314 pages
...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... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
