 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...  Elson Grammar School Reader: Book four - Page 76by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...not attempt to describe the battle, but he touches upon what preceded happily and forcibly. " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...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 eyes look'd... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...in feeling. The quotation is again a long one, but we must not and dare not curtail it. XXI. ' There was a sound of revelry by night And Belgium's capital...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 eyes look'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...mounts, as if to break the liuk That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...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 eyes look'd... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...gods, was first miserably tortured, and then put to death. *18. 1815. — BATTLE OF WATERLOO. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...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 eyes looked... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...gather'd 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...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; [knell ! But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising Did ye not hear it ?... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...power of Napoleón, was fought dn this day. * Audley, t Bredy'i Cl«Ti§. BATTLE OF WATERLOO There n the grateful stomach of {he judicious epicure — and for such : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, aud bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark 1 a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ' Did ye not hear it ? —... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps abone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark 1 a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? —... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...gathered then Pier beanty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose...all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a d«ep sound strikes like a rising kuell '. Did ye not hear it ? — No ; it was the wind, Or the... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...God's Angel staid Mm — and he.fell Upon his face and wept. NIGHT BEFORE AND BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...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 eyes looked... | |
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