 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...opening roar! Within a windowed 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 deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...roar ! 3. 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...cannon's opening Within a window'd 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 deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...' ХХШ. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear st the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf, unconquer'd nar; And when they smiled bfcausc he dccm'd it near. His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...roar ! XXIII. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sale Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Dcalh's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because lie deent'd it near, Mis heart more truly knew... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 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 - 1847 - 880 pages
...roar ! xxm. Within a wlndow'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear apaJus, with three hundred wires and seren hundred concubine*. HOGG.] 248 SARDANAPALUS. ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near. His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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 deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...opening roar ! Within a window'd 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 smil'd because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...opening roar Within a windowed 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... | |
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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! 
