 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1941816Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...swell, Soft eyes looic'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merrv as a marriage bell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!...ye not hear it ?—No ; twas but the wind, Or the ear rattling o'er the stony street; On wjth the dance ! let joy be unconfincd; No sleep till morn,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes...spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! * ** " Within a windowed nirhe of that... | |
 | 1816 - 274 pages
...shone o'er fair women and'brave in«v; A thousand hearts beat happily ; nud-when Music «rose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; Dbt hush ! hark '. a deep sound strikes like a rising knefl ! Did ye not hear it ?... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...brave men ; [when A thousand hearts beat happily; and Musick arose with its voluptuous swell, SofKyes look'd love 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 ? — No ; 'twas but the... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave 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 asa marriage-bell ! but hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arost with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And a!l went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell'. Did... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes loolc'd love to eyes which spake again, . And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush .' hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. " Did ye not hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, Ar.d all went merry as a marriage bell ; liut hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell'.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose wilh its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again And 3 all went merry as a marriage -bell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! B... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily, and when Music arose with iis voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love 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? No... | |
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