 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...dance ! let joy be unconfin'd ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the.glowing hours with flying feet. But hark ! that heavy sound...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear ; And when... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...! — a deep sound 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...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...! hark ! a deep sound 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...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... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...! hark ! a deep sound 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...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell Did ye not hear it I No ; 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm ! it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Oh ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell Did ye not hear it ? No ; 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm ! it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Oh ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet,...before ! Arm ! arm ! it is ! — it is ! the cannon's op'ning roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! 2. Did ye not hear it? — No; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with...! arm ! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! 3. Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...hark ! a deep sound 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...arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! * Johnson has shrewdly said, "Few characters can bear the microscopic eye of Scrutiny !" How far... | |
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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! 
