 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 Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 636edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
 | 1805 - 540 pages
...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...future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot j Cold diffidence, and age's froft, In the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank, in faithlefs memory... | |
 | 1805 - 752 pages
...The old man raifcd his face and fmiled j And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's exftacy ! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding...were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, Jn the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing thought... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...extacy. 1 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 lest. Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...extacy ! 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 poet's glowing... | |
 | 1806 - 502 pages
...extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; ^j 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 poet's glowing... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fore-edge painting - 1806 - 342 pages
...extacy ! 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 ages frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1810 - 780 pages
...extasy. 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 lull tide of song were lost." * HJS sijht is remarkably good. The venerable object of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...ecstacy ! 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 poet's glowing... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...ecstacy ! 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 poet's glowing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...ecstacy ! 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 hlank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
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