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" No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. "
The Freemason's Monthly Magazine - Page 249
1844
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The Port Folio

1817 - 560 pages
...night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 37

1828 - 358 pages
...the Caicus was a river of Mysia, and hence it is called by Yirgil VII. " No useless coffin inclosed his breast, '] . . . • Not in sheet nor in shroud...taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. * * * « We spoke not a word of sorrow, But stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead." Wolfe's Ode...
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 1

H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 pages
...night, The sods with ourbayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound h;m. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 67

1850 - 938 pages
...even in the attitnde of repose, at once arrested the eye. Tall, athletic, and dignified, " He l.-ty like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." I saw before me one of the bravest, the most distinguished, the most trusted of the Generals who fonght...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

1818 - 596 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior , taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Both few and short were the pray'rs we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly...
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Seren Gomer : neu, Gyfrwng gwybodaeth cyffredinol i'r Cymry, Volumes 36-37

1853 - 1162 pages
...where our hero we buried. No useless coffin enclosed hiabreat>t, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Yn fad oedd y tebwrdd, galarnad ni fu, Tr.i ei [rorff i'r amgacrau cyrchasom ; Ni baethai un milwr,...
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Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a ..., Volume 1

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 pages
...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, " With his martial cloak around him." " I should have taken," said Shelley, " the whole for a rough sketch of Campbell's." " No," replied...
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Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, " With his martial cloak around him." " I should have taken," said Shelley, " the whole for a rough sketch of Campbell's." " No," replied...
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Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a ..., Volume 1

Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 314 pages
...dimly burning. 'I No useless coffin confined his breast, M Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound hiifli " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest) '• With his martial cloak around hini. " Few and short were the prayers we said; ''f And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; l> But we steadfastly...
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Selections, from Several Literary Works: Comprising The Declaration of ...

Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 pages
...The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light^ And the lantern djmly burning. No useless. coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him^ But he lay tike a warrior taking his rest, With his martiahclpak arpund him... •h Few...
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