 | W. J. Knoop - 1862 - 366 páginas
...roar! XXIII. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated Chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival And caught its tone with death's prophetic car ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 páginas
...opening roar. S. Within a windowed niche of that high hall, Sat 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 deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which... | |
 | 1863 - 392 páginas
...opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate 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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 páginas
...opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate 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 deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Selections - 1863 - 192 páginas
...roar ! Within a window's niche of that high hall Sate 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...opening roar ! i Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate 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, 1 The sound of the cannon decided the Duke of Wellington... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 páginas
...Addison. 8. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear.— Byron. 9. Thus conscience docs make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1921 - 506 páginas
...joy be unconfined. They did not hear that heavy sound striking like a rising knell. But Amos heard it amidst the festival " and caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear." It was the chariot wheels of the Assyrian, now almost on his way into Israel's land to tread it down and... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 páginas
...roar! 177 Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate 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 deemed it near, BUT, HARK ! His heart more truly knew that peal too... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 páginas
...XXIII. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated Chieftain; he did hear 2ft That sound "the first amidst 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... | |
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But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! 
