 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pagina’s
...tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. HOME. I KNEW my father's chimney top, Though nearer to my heart than eye, And watched... | |
 | 1841 - 992 pagina’s
...sorrow, But we Btedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. • * • Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! FATAL SENSIBILITY. A TALE OF THE... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pagina’s
...let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, g) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory! We carved not a lme, we raised not a stone, But left him — alone with his glory! Wolfe. EXERCISE 30. Eve lamenting... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pagina’s
...where a-Britop has. laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring And we heard the distant and random gun That...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. It I had thought thou couldst have died,... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 pagina’s
...which relates the last hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! When the origin of the words is known, Bloom's irony in linking Dignam and Moore becomes... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pagina’s
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro.... | |
 | James Chapman - 1821 - 378 pagina’s
...where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pagina’s
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pagina’s
...where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun...of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 pagina’s
...we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a Vine, we raised not a stone, But left him aloue with his glory." 13. We are in a field near Harrodsburg.... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring... 
