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The English elocutionist, a collection of the finest passages of poetry and ... - Page 47
by Charles Hartley - 1872
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The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...tribute of pcrpemal praise. FitzfferaiA ., SECTIOM IX. Night before the Battle if \Ynltrlw. 1. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when i Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...fields ! king-making Victory ? There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry; and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; — But hush ! hark !...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...swift Camilla scours the plain', » Flies o'er lh' unbending corn', and skims along the main'. There was a sound of revelry by night', And Belgium's capital...brave men': A thousand hearts beat happily'; and when' Musick arose with its voluptuous swell', Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spoke again'; And all...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular ...

William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...terminated the personal power of Napolean, was fou|>nt on this day. 8o:< BATTLE OF WATERLOO ГЬсго was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with ils voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 pages
...particulars, requires the voice gradually to rise on each, till it comes to the mark of transition. Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, All went merry as a marriage-bell ; (0) But hush ! hark ! •• a deep sound strikes like a rising...
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The Harp of the Wilderness; Or, Flowers of Modern Fugitive Poetry ...

Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...I ween, The marks of that which once had been. BATTLE OF WATERLOO. . BYRON. THERE was a sound of a revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered...to eyes 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 ?...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 8

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...Thomas) Denman, — xx. There was a sound of revelry by night, (') And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; (2) But hush I hark...
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The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...fou^nt on this day. 803 00» THE F.VEllY-DAY BOOK.— JUNE 18. BO« BATTLE OF WATERLOO ГЬсгс >»as a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital...again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But bush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...Athens' tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night, 2 And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage- bell ; * But hush! hark! a...
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...Athens' tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by night,(5) And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps...when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell : (6) But hush! hark!...
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