 | 1816 - 832 էջ
...of preparation" on the alarm of the enemy, thrill the feelings with indescribable emotion. " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The l»mps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; [when A thousand hearts beat happily; and... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | 1817 - 590 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | 1818 - 904 էջ
...than poetical moral on the uncertainty of human life, and the vanity of worldly pleasures. « There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lampi shone o'er fair women aud brave men; Lord Byron's Childe Harold. 251 A thousand... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | 1824 - 452 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 էջ
...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 and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 էջ
...nil their force throughout that passage, which no one who has read it can forget, beginning, There was a sound of revelry by night, -. ' And Belgium's...capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry. In his description of the sorrow of those who mourn for the dead, gloomy and striking images are accumulated,... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 էջ
...terminated the personal power of Xapolean, was fought on this day Aodtey. BATTLE OF 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 abone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 էջ
...wreathes a sword Such as llunnoilins (2) drew on Atheu's tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of reyelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair woman and brave met) ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when... | |
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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... 
