 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
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasv ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, INTRODUCTION. He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, Hie toile, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 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 chords along : » King Charles I. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...And lightened up his laded eye, With ajl the poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, lie swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...raised his face, and smiled ; and lighted up his faded eye, with all a poet's ecstasy ! increasine In varying cadence, soft or strong, he swept the sounding chords along ; the present • cene, the to future lot, his toils, his wants, were all j orgot ; cold diffidence, and age's frost,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 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.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1880 - 406 pages
...And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, Re swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,...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... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...soft or strong, . ~ - - ' . He swept the Bounding chords along ; * Lockhart's Ufi of Scott, 11. 286. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his...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... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...palace of the Scotch monarchs at Edinburgh. ' Ecstasy, delight, rapture. 7 Chords, harmonious sounds. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diff1dence,1 and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void,... | |
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