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 - Página 3501810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 páginas
...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lighted 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... | |
| James White - 1858 - 316 páginas
...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...all forgot ; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost. Each blank in faithless memory's void The poet's glowing thought supplied,... | |
| Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...to grandeur as well as beauty*. 2. Hags*, goblins*, demons*, lemures', have made me all aghast\ 3. The present scene*, the future lot*, his toils*, his wants', were all forgot\ 4. Our own selfishness*, our own neglect*, our own passions*, and our own vices', will furnish the... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 páginas
...old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighteu'd up his faded eye, With all the 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... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 páginas
...old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the 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... | |
| Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 páginas
...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 - 1860 - 656 páginas
...»**v VAVt. uzc*U iCUOGU U*O litUC, UUU. And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy! 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;... | |
| Samuel Penniman Bates - 1860 - 352 páginas
...fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made," before the hand had caught the cunning of the art, and "In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along." What culture can do for the singer, it can also do for the reader and the speaker. It requires many... | |
| John Connery - 1861 - 416 páginas
...wild, The old man rais'd his head and smiled. And lighten'd 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... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 páginas
...old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy I . 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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