twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark! Reading-literature - Page 221919Full view - About this book
| 1816 - 274 pages
...the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stoney street ; On with the dance ! let joy be uncoufined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To...Arm, it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Witfein a windowed niche of ihat high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound... | |
| 1816 - 832 pages
...— [once more, But, bark!— that heavy sound breaks in As if the clouds its echo would repeat: A nd nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall [did hear Sate Brunswick's fated Chieftain; he That sound... | |
| 1816 - 696 pages
...but the wind, Or the ear rattling o'er the stony street; On wjth the dance ! let joy be unconfincd; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with Hying feet— But, hark !—that heavy sound ijivaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would... | |
| 1817 - 590 pages
...a rising knell ! XXII. ' Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! XXIII. ' Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...strikes like a rising knell'. Did yc not hear it ? — No ; 'twas hut the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound... | |
| 1817 - 552 pages
...strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; •On with the dance ! let joy...echo would repeat ; And nearer, clearer, deadlier lhan before ! Arm ! Arm ! it is— it is the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche ofthat... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 pages
...but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with tile dance! let joy be uuconfined; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To...feet — But, hark ' — that heavy sound breaks in oace more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat ; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before; Arm... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 pages
...chase the glowing hours with flyin; feet — But, hark ! — thai heavy sound breaks in once more, A * if the clouds its echo would repeat ; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ; Arm ! Ann ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar!" P. 13. ' The noble Lord, a? may easily be imagined,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...strikes like a rising knell'. Did ye not hear it ": — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sle^-p till morn, when youth ami pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet — But... | |
| 1818 - 904 pages
...To cliase the glowing hoars with flyiug feet— But, hark! that heavy tound breaks in once more, An if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! arm! it is—it is—the cannon's opening roar !" pp. 13, 14. We omit his lordship's subsetquent description,... | |
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