 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1951817Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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...rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. " Ah ! then and there was hurryin? to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And... | |
 | 1816 - 274 pages
...And caught its tone with Death's prophetic car ; Macpherjon, Printer, Russell Court, Covent Garden. And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch 'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell : He rush'd... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst tile festival, And caught its' tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His In-art more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, . .. '; He rush'd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he derni'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well...rush'd into the field, and, foremost, fighting, fell. Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...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...His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell ; [fell. Herush'd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he t'ecm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch' tl his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell : lie rush'd... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he desm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which slrctch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell : He rush'd... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...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...His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And rous'd the vengeance blood alone could quell : He rushed... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the ßrst amidst the festival, And caught its tone wuh Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, Jlis heart more truly knew that peal too well Which slretch'd Iiis father on a bloody bier, And roused... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...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...rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. Ah! then and there was hurrying too and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks... | |
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