 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
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 630 pages
...Buccleuch, grandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrated warrior. 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 — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 154 pages
...to tune his harp he tried, 65 His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please i And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering...his 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 366 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 pain, Came wildering o er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 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...harp in vain. The pitying Duchess praised its chime. Till every string's according glee And gave him heart, and gave him time. Was blended into harmony.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 168 pages
...wished his boon denied, For, when to tune his harp he tried, es 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. 70 The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart and gave him time, Till every string's... | |
 | William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society - Wordsworth Society - 1889 - 388 pages
...feel now and again that, as Sir Walter said of his aged harper, 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. Mr. Arnold places almost all the really first-rate work of Wordsworth in the decade between the years... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 292 pages
...feel now and again that, as Sir Walter said of his aged harper, * 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 bram.' " Mr. Arnold places almost all the really first-rate work of Wordsworth in the decade between... | |
 | George Smith - 1891 - 432 pages
...undivided Church rose up before him. Possibly he felt like the Minstrel in Scott's immortal poem : " 'And scenes long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain. ' At anyrate the audience cheered him in full sympathy, and ' the old man eloquent ' at last got under... | |
 | 1892 - 728 pages
...Scott's description in the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel ' : — ' His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes long past,...string's according glee Was blended into harmony.' How characteristic of Scott himself, with his wonderful power of appreciating the efforts of others,... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 624 pages
...wish'd his boon denied ; For, when to tune the 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 ! » Lockhart'a Life of Scott, ii. 226. The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart,... | |
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