 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 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...hoary head : But when he caught the measure wild, Tin; old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 pages
...lived in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — 'when he caught the measure wild; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 pages
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 392 pages
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when be caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stmyed, 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 ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 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...face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept tho sounding chords along... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...past, of joy and pain, Came wild'ring o'er his aged brain — " Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his face and smi1'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying... | |
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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... 
