 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...NIGHT BEFORE AND BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital hail gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes lookei! love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush! hark! a deep... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry...hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! (1 ) See the famous song on Harmodius and Aristogiton. — The hist Kngiish translation is in Bland's... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...preparation, the uproar of battle, and the mournful conclusion. There was a sound of revelry hy night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty...! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it ? — No, 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...his face and wept. 23* NIGHT BEFORE AND BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty...! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Did ye not hear it? — no; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...passage exhibits the two extremes of pitch : BATTLE OF WATERLOO. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty...its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes whpjh spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; (7) But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright Tlic lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand...again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! liark ! — a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...cold grey stone. Scon's LADY or THE LAKE, (CANTO V.) WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell : But hush ! hark ! a... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...fields, king-making Victory ! There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...Music arose, with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; — But hush ! hark... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...the finest ever penned : " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spoke again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...the finest ever penned : " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spoke again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a... | |
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There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft... 
