 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...roar ! XXIII. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftaiu ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pages
...opening roar ! " Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear: And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 414 pages
...Victory, 1[ " Within a window'd niche of that high li:-H Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain : he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart inure truly knew that peal too well, Which... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 414 pages
...Victory, 1 [ " Within a window'd niche of that hijfh hnll Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain : he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...been XXI. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear : And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...roar ! XXIII. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; as the preceding one, was written after a visit to the field of \Vaterloo), the lines stood — " Hire... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear : And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...roar ! xxIII. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled hecause he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
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But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! 
