 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his finger stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his...the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...When he kept Court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, vet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook Ills hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild. The old man raised his face, find smiled; And... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 200
...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...the measure wild, The old man raised his face and smiled : And lighted up his faded eye, With all a poetl ecstasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong.... | |
 | T. W. M. - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, rth, smiled ; And lighten 'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his finger slray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft ho shook his hoary head. But when he 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 f In varying cadence, soft and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...Rncclench, father of the Duchess. And much he wished, yet feared to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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,... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...long- forgotten melody.* Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made — 85 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 ! * 90 In varying cadence,* soft... | |
 | sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, Then oft he shook his hoary head But when he 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 strong,... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, Then oft he shook his hoary head But when he 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 strong,... | |
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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... 
