| John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 páginas
...they contain are as usual with him, few, but bold and electrifying. I now give you them— M There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital...its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spake again, And all went merry as the marriage bell, But hark ! hush ! a deep sound strikes like... | |
| James Caughey - 1857 - 444 páginas
...only an extract at hand, but -I believe it contains the entire verses to which I allude:— " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ?—No: 'twas but the wind, Or the... | |
| George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 284 páginas
...held, on the eve of the battle of Waterloo, that has been so finely described by Byron : — " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...all went merry as a marriage-bell : But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! " ***** " And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed,... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 páginas
...LADY OP THE LAKE. WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell : But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it ? —... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...this all the world hath gain'd by thee, Thou first and last of fields, king-making Victory ? There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; — Rut hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! • The Duke of Wellington... | |
| Maurice D. Kavanagh - 1859 - 202 páginas
...everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good. Wordsworth. WATERLOO. I. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell. n. Did ye not hear it ? No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 páginas
...endears Glory, is when the myrtle wreathes a sword Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; Bnt hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. Did ye not hear... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 páginas
...sword Such as Harmodius3 drew on Athens' tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night, 4 Byron Byron ; * [knell ! But hush ! hark I a deep sound strikes like a rising 1 " PrUle of place " Is л term of... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 páginas
...endears Glory, is when the myrtle wreathes a sword Such as Harmodiasf drew on Athens' tyrant lord. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which t-pake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ;J But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 páginas
...tyrant lord. XXI. /• '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...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; lint hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. Did ye not hear... | |
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