 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
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...The old man raised his face and smiled ; And lighted 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 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... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 362 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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 406 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... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...man raised his face, and ami led ; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! * 90 In varying cadence,* soft or strong, He swept the...were all forgot ; Cold diffidence,* and age's frost, 95 In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank * in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 96 pages
...diffident. EXAMINATION PAPER. I. Explain the following lines, stating in what connexion they occur : — (a) In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along. (b) Arthur's slow wain his course doth roll, In utter darkness round the pole ; The Northern Bear lowers... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 pages
...strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbKng made,' before ' the measure wild' was caught, and ' In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along.' His youthful admiration of Langhorne has been rendered memorable by his own record of his first and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy 1 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... | |
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