 | 1816 - 274 pages
...the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stoney street ; On with the dance ! let joy be uncoufined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To...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... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 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...once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat ; And nearer, clearer, deadlier lhan before ! Arm ! Arm ! it is— it is the cannon's opening roar... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. ' Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell'. Did yc not hear it ? — No ; 'twas hut the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...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... | |
 | 1835 - 792 pages
...the eve before the battle of Quatre Bras, June, 1815. " Did ye not hear it ? No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." Cltilde Harold, III. 22. Such instances will probably occur again and again, according to the character... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 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 To...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...I a deep sound strikes like a rising kuell .' XXII. Did ye not hear it? — No; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...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'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...hush! 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...once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, nearer, deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm! it is—it is—the cannon's opening roar! Within... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 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...meet To chase, the glowing hours with flying feet— Bnt, hark ! — that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer,... | |
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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! 
