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... Sir Walter Scott - Side 46av Richard Holt Hutton - 1878 - 177 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1805 - 570 sider
...wild, The old man raised his face and imil'd ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's extacy. 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lest. Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 sider
...citacy i In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, In the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank, in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| 1805 - 752 sider
...! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; - • The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, Jn the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 sider
...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 the sounding...forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the fall tide of song were lost. Each 1 1! i nk , in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 350 sider
...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He ^wept the sounding chords along : The present scene, ,the...and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost j Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive... | |
| Walter Scott - 1806 - 342 sider
...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, He swept the sounding...his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and ages frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 sider
...raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestacy ! In varyirrg cadence, soft or strong-, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene, the ftiture lot, Hi» toib, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the ftiH... | |
| 1806 - 502 sider
...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, He swept the sounding chords along ; ^j The present scene, the future lot ; His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 sider
...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 the sounding chords along j The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
| 1810 - 780 sider
...The Old-Man rais'd his face and smil'd, And lighten'd up his brilliant eye* With all a Poet's extasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...all forgot ; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the lull tide of song were lost." * HJS sijht is remarkably good. The venerable object of this public testimony... | |
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