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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... "
The lay of the last minstrel, a poem - Page 16
by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 6

1805 - 540 pages
...(hook his hoary head. But. when he caught the meafure wild, The old man raiftd his face, and fmiled , And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong,. He fwept the founding chords along ; The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils,...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

1805 - 570 pages
...tried to tun« his harp in vain/ At length, encouraged by the kindness of his illustrious hostess, ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...harp a tale /of arms and chivalry, in which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, Andan uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 2, Part 1

1806 - 502 pages
...speaker, arid to the occasion. The Liist Minstrel is thus modestly, but auspiciously, introduced. ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain...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...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...harp a tale of arm» and c!iiv*bjs*o which the names and actions of her ancestors are commemorated. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made— And oft he shook his hoary bead. Aut when he caught the measure «¡Ű, The old man raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened...
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The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...When he kept court in Holy rood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...feared, to try 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...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,...
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