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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ... - Page 309
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...woos us to its brink. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps...eyes which spake again, And ' all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark I a deep sound strikes like a rising kuell .' XXII. Did ye not hear it?...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...happiness in that which is to come. " ' The Lounger's Common Place Book. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...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...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...dream That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; [knell ! But hush !...
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Time's Telescope

Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...1815. — 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 bush ! hark ! a...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...WATERLOO. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty an3 her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair...and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eves looked love to eyes which spake again, And JL went merry as a marriage-bell; [knell! But hush...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...as Harmodius 2 drew on Athens' tyrant IdMi XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belginm's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry,...with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyjfc^ich spake again, And all went merry as a raprriage-bell; 3 But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes...
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The every-day book, or, The guide to the year

William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...Cl«Ti§. BATTLE OF WATERLOO There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; Bat hush ! hark ! a...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...utmost power : There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belginm's Capital had gathered then Hi r beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone...hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptnous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell...
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The North American Review, Volume 20

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...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...thousand hearts beat happily : and when Music arose wiili its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...endears Glory, is when the myrtle wreathes a sword Such as llarmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord. There for to he Thus, andenamonr'd. were in him the same....o'erflowing teems Along his burning page, distemper'd marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it? —...
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