 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...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 that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell : He rush'd... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pages
...And nearer, nearer, deadlier than before! Arm! arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! 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... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...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. that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell ; He rnsh'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...they smiled because he deem'd it near, ML- heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd ould have suited me ; yet I sometimes ong fur : lie rueh'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. XX1T. Ah! then and there was hurrying to... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...first1, amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear* ; | And, when they smil'd,| because he deem'd it near, | His heart more truly knew that peal too well1, | Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, | And rous'd the vengeance, blood alone could... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, 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 : He rushed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...they smiled because he dcem'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...quell: He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting fellAll ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and trembling« of distress,... | |
 | 1882 - 958 pages
...the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused that vengeance blood alone could quell, He rushed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 862 pages
...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 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 - 592 pages
...festival, And caught it's tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deetn'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... | |
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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 that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on... 
