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... Annual Register - Page 643edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
| Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...this circumstance in Childe Harolde. THE BALL OF BRUSSELS. . There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty...; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Athens' tyrant lord. XXL There was a sound of revelry- by night, 4 And Belgium's capital had gather'd adjure thee to thlt spell."— MS.] ' [The germs...passage* in ManJ«i. may be found in the Journal of his arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
| Charles Lanman - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 272 pages
...Waterloo, how strangely blended were the passions of men ! " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty...bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men." Byron. In that assemblage of Mammon's votaries I can discern the spirits of mirth and sadness. Over... | |
| 1842 - 482 pages
...but still I wont where "There was a sound of revelry by night, And "our great Capitol" had fathered then Her beauty and her chivalry. And bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand heartsbeat happilv; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which... | |
| William Beattie - Abbeys - 1842 - 398 pages
...Norfolk. The evening was ushered in by a splendid ball, at which the " castled Arundel" " Had gathcr'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women aud brave men." The ball was opened by the Duke of Norfolk and the Marcliioness of Stafford — late... | |
| James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...*1 T '" T Dryden. 18. TIte Battle of Waterloo. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium1s capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o1er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous... | |
| Frank E. Vandiver - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 654 pages
...recite, slowly at first, then faster as the words returned: There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty...men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
| Mark Bailey - Elocution - 1880 - 80 pages
...Joyous ' example for ' higher pitch* and ' wider compass.' " There was a sound of revelry by night, Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps...men. A thousand hearts beat happily, and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...of Eternity, — the throne Of the Invisible! OBNC; PoEL-4 5 There was a sound of revelry by night. e Were springs of Deity. (1. 20-24) 9 But I saw the...world's filth And the filth in the heart of Man — arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...Night Was a Sound of Revelry by C 切r 辟GordonB 打on 。 叮 There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty...men, A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry... | |
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