 Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain...  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 15by Walter Scott - 1806 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1855 - 326 pages
...wished his boon denied ; For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pam, Came wildering o'er his aged brain ; He tried to tune his harp in vain. The pitying duchess praised... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...he wished his boon denied; for, when to tune his harp he tried, his trembling hand had lost the ease which marks security to please ; and scenes, long...aged brain ; — he tried to tune his harp, in vain. p"»Amid the strings his fingers strayed, and an notation, uncertain warbling made; and, oft, he shook... | |
 | Henry Owgan - 1856 - 338 pages
... BT HENRY OWGAN, LL.D. ' And scenes long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain." — SCOTT. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please; And scenes, long past,...aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain. 70 The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please; And scenes, long past,...aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain. 70 The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...wish'd his hoon denicd : For, when to tune his harp he tricd, His tremhling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long...past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged hrain — He tricd to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying duchess praised its chime. And gave him heart,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...wbh'd his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, Hi» trembling bind hud lost the ease, Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er lus aged brain — He tried to tune his luirp in vain !' The pilymg Duchess praised its cliime, And... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...wish'd his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he tried, Bis trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long...o'er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp tn vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime. And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...wish'd his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long...o'er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp m vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime. And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's... | |
 | John Ordronaux - Eulogies - 1859 - 66 pages
...chord in his heart, beneath whose vibrations the aged man would quiver with conflicting emotions. " And scenes, long past, of joy and pain Came wildering o'er his aged brain, And lighted up his faded eye With all a p&trio?s ecstasy. " At such times, he would rise from his chair,... | |
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