| Walter Scott - 1805 - Liczba stron: 340
...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; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - Liczba stron: 350
...try 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; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He ^wept... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - Liczba stron: 590
...Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made— And eft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - Liczba stron: 362
...try 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; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - Liczba stron: 788
...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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - Liczba stron: 796
...commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, Andan uncertain warbling made— And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his lace, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft... | |
| Walter Scott - 1807 - Liczba stron: 382
...4 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; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1808 - Liczba stron: 352
...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 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - Liczba stron: 310
...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! In varying...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - Liczba stron: 254
...1 u Amidthe 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; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
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