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 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - xxvi ページWalter Scott 著 - 1831 - 490 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 ページ
...And lighten' d up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy f In varying cadence, soft and strong-, Ho swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREI sung:— CANTO I. I. The feast was over in Brunksome tower, And the Ladye... | |
| 1880 - 556 ページ
...soft or strong, . ~ - - ' . He swept the Bounding chords along ; * Lockhart's Ufi of Scott, 11. 286. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twiis thus the latest minstrel sung. • * » * » » Here pansed the harp ; and with its swell The... | |
| New national reading books - 1880 - 362 ページ
...sounds. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diff1dence,1 and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive 2 rung, 100. 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. Hush'd is the harp — the Minstrel gone ; And did... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 ページ
...caught the measure wild, 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...thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. THE CAMP. [From Marmon, Canto IV.] [Marmion and Sir David Lindesay... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 ページ
...caught the measure 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...thought supplied ; And while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. Canto I. 3. Nine-and-twenty knights of fame Hung their shields... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 ページ
...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...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. I. THE feast was over in Branksome tower, And the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 ページ
...caught the measure wild, 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...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. I. THE feast was over in Branksome tower,* And the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 ページ
...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...glowing thought supplied; And, while his harp responsive rang, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. CANTO FIRST. I. THE feast was over in Branksome tower, And... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 ページ
...The old man raised his face and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung. Scott's more ambitious poems were The Lady of the Lake, The Vision... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 96 ページ
...stasis, a standing). A poet ecstasy, that condition of a poet in which h may be said to be inspired. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, 95 In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought... | |
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