 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! * ** " Within a windowed nirhe of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...festival, And caught it's 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...He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. XXIV. ' Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...Arm ! 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...death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he t'ecm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch' tl his father on a bloody... | |
 | 1817 - 862 pages
...Arm ! 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...death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he derni'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
 | 1817 - 554 pages
...Arm ! Arm ! it is— it is the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche ofthat high hall .Bate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar! XXIII. Within a windowed niche of that high hall S*te Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound...Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he desm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which slrctch'd his father on a bloody... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - 1820 - 532 pages
...Arm ! Arm ! it is. — it is— the cannon's opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain — he did hear That...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar' XXIII. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That...He rush'd into the field , and, foremost fighting, fell. XXIV. Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...! 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 That...Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...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...He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fellj Ah ! then and there was hurrying too and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,... | |
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... Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet — 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... 
