 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...Byron describes the scene in the following stanzas, which are among the finest ever penned : " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spoke again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...LAKE, (CANTO V.) 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...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 ? —... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...his blood — shall he expire, And unrevenged ? Arise, ye Goths ! and glut your ire ! WATERLOO. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily, a^id when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...the mournful conclusion. There was a sound of revelry hy night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...[Marked as LESSON LII.] [° — ] There was a sound ' of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital II had gather'd : then | •< Her beauty ' and her chivalry...[| °] A thousand hearts | beat happily, and when [x] < Music ' arose ' with its voluptuous swill, Soft eyes | look'd love ' to eyes which spake again... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...communion tends To make us what we are: — even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh. WATERLOO. TnnRE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; [knell! But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising Did ye not hear it ? No... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...fields ! king-making Victory ? There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belginm's capital had gnther'd then Her beauty and her chivalry; and bright The lamps...went merry as a marriage bell : — But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it !— No ; twos but the wind, Or the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...THE EVE OF THE BATTLE.5 THERE was a sound of revelry by night,3 And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...BEFORE AND 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...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Battle of Waterloo, Brno*. THERE was a sound of revelry by night; ' And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The...Music arose, with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell— But hush ! hark !... | |
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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd 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... 
