| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 544 páginas
...evening which preceded that memorable battle, the fate of sire and of son is thus immortalised : — " But, hark ! — that heavy sound breaks in once more,...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because be deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his Father on a bloody... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 548 páginas
...evening which preceded that memorable battle, the fate of sire and of son is thus immortalised : — " But, hark ! — that heavy sound breaks in once more,...festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic car ; And when they smiled because he dccm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 516 páginas
...once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat ; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Ann ! arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deera'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his Father on a bloody... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...deadlier than before ! Arm ! Arm ! it is ! — it is ! — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain...Death's prophetic ear : And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
| 1838 - 332 páginas
...cannon's opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieflain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival,...they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly^uiew that peal too well Which stretch'd his Tither on a bloody bier, ft 6 And roused the vengeance... | |
| Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 páginas
...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound...death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
| 740 páginas
...Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And cauglit its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, HIi heart more truly knew. that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! ХХШ. e roused her from her trance, Had frozen her sense...again — And o'er his brow the burning lamp Gleam'd as the preceding one, was written after a visit to the field of Waterloo), the lines stood — *' Here... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 páginas
...opening roar-. ! | Within a window'd niche of that high hall, | Sate Brunswick's fa ted chief tain; he did hear , That sound the first', amidst the festival,...tone with Death's prophetic ear, ; | And, when they smil'd, because he deem'd it near, | His heart more truly knew that peal too well', | Which stretch'd... | |
| 1843 - 668 páginas
...the First. The subject is borrowed from Byron's well-known lines : " Within a window'd niche ofthat high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did...And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear"... The Duke of Brunswick is seen standing at an open window in the position of one listening intently... | |
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