 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...  Lectures on Poetry: Delivered at Oxford - Página 103por Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1877 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 páginas
...long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the...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, He swept... | |
 | 1805 - 570 páginas
...his illustrious hostess, ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made; And oft he shook his hoary head ; But when he caught the measure 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,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 páginas
...ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the...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, He swept... | |
 | 1806 - 502 páginas
...auspiciously, introduced. ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught 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, He... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 páginas
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 páginas
...long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made— And oft he 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 páginas
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the...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, He swept... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 páginas
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the...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, He swept... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 páginas
...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 caught the...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, He swept... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 páginas
...The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extaey ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
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