 There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage, ed. by W. Hiley - Page 74by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...drew on Athens' tyrant lord. 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 shone o'er fair women and brave men; 185 A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...1st, 1769, | At Midnight. " 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 shone o'er fair women and br»ve men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...1st, 1769, | At Midnight. " 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 shone o'er fair women and br»ve men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Soft... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 pages
...end (Canto III, Stanza 21): 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 shone o'er fair women and brave men; And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Anne's... | |
 | J. Anthony Lukas - History - 2012 - 884 pages
...the battle of Waterloo: "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 shone o'er fair women and brave men." Once more, Governor Gooding occupied a prominent seat. So did the widow, Belle Steunenberg, making... | |
 | Charles Larcom Graves, Edward Verrall Lucas - Fiction - 1998 - 538 pages
...heauty, the lights of the chandeliers scintillated from gold lace, orders, and military insignia. ' Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes that spake again, And all went merry as a marriage -bell.' Alas ! if they could only have foreseen... | |
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