...not attempt to describe the battle, but he touches upon what preceded happily and forcibly. " 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...

...of preparation" on the alarm of the enemy, thrill the feelings with indescribable emotion. " There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The l»mps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; [when A thousand hearts beat happily; and...

...in feeling. The quotation is again a long one, but we must not and dare not curtail it. XXI. ' 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...

...than poetical moral on the uncertainty of human life, and the vanity of worldly pleasures. « There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lampi shone o'er fair women aud brave men; Lord Byron's Childe Harold. 251 A thousand...

...mounts, as if to break the liuk That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XXI. 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...

...gods, was first miserably tortured, and then put to death. *18. 1815. — BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 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...

...power of Napoleón, was fought dn this day. * Audley, t Bredy'i Cl«Ti§. BATTLE OF WATERLOO There n the grateful stomach of {he judicious epicure — and for such and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when...

...nil their force throughout that passage, which no one who has read it can forget, beginning, There was a sound of revelry by night, -. ' And Belgium's...capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry. In his description of the sorrow of those who mourn for the dead, gloomy and striking images are accumulated,...

...terminated the personal power of Xapolean, was fought on this day Aodtey. BATTLE OF WATERLOO There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps abone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when...

...wreathes a sword Such as llunnoilins (2) drew on Atheu's tyrant lord. XXI. There was a sound of reyelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair woman and brave met) ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when...