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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 ; Each blank, in faithless memory void,... "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 350
1810
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The Norwich Minstrel, Containing Several Hundred of the Most Admired and ...

English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft and strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present...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...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd tip his faded eye, With nil a poet's ecstacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future loi, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of...
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The lay of the last minstrel. Illustr. ed

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 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...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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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life

Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...The old man raised his tace 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;...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 full tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 pages
...his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling 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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 422 pages
...his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling 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...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Containing Lay of the Last ...

Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 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 hlank, in faithless memory void. The poet's glowing thought supplied;...
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