 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...of preparation" on the alarm of the enemy, thrill the feelings with indescribable emotion. " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The l»mps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; [when A thousand hearts beat happily; and Musick arose... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...line, is Jiappily e \piessed. XXI. " There wag a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capit.il had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair wo nen anil brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,... | |
 | 1816 - 274 pages
...suited to the subject. There was a sound of revelry by nighty And Belgium's capital had gathered thfcn Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and' bright: The lamps shone o'er fair women and'brave in«v; A thousand hearts beat happily ; nud-when Music «rose with its voluptuous swell,... | |
 | Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...than poetical moral on the uncertainty of human life, and the vanity of worldly pleasures. « There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lampi shone o'er fair women aud brave men; Lord Byron's Childe Harold. 251 A thousand hearts beat happily;... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...fce * worldly pleasures, " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather id then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and bra т e mcn¿ which they inspire. There is no subject on which a genuine poet is more sure of exciting... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...all their force throughout that passage, which no one who has read it can forget, beginning, There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry. In his description of the sorrow of those who mourn for the dead, gloomy and striking images are accumulated,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...perhaps no extent of power could realise what we look for from Lord Byron writing upon Bonaparte. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty in her Chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...terminated the personal power of Xapolean, was fought on this day Aodtey. BATTLE OF WATERLOO There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps abone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...fougnt on this day. Audley. t Bradv'c Gla»m. BATTLE OF WATERLOO liiere WM a sound of revelry by niglit, ti j A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose wilh its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...wreathes a sword Such as llunnoilins (2) drew on Atheu's tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of reyelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then...her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair woman and brave met) ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,... | |
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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. 
