 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 436 pages
...APPENDIX. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. [By the Rev. CHARLES WOLFE, AB] I. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. n. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 434 pages
...APPENDIX. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. [By tbe Rtr. CRARLKS WOLFK, AB] I. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. II. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...Burial of Sir John Moore. — WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard', nor a funeral note', As his corsed o'er the rampart we hurried', Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot', O'er the grave where our hero was buried'. We buried him darkly', at dead of night', The sod with our bayonets« turning', By the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 pages
...danger, nights of waking. 3. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hevo we buried. EXERCISES IN VERSIFICATION. 1'imftics to 6e versified, rhyming in couplets, and each... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The turf with our bay'nets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lanterns dimly burning.... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...Admiral Calmady's red nose. LINES ON THF. vl i: [ VI. OF SIB JOHN MOORF. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried : Not a soldier discharged a farewell shot. O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1837 - 518 pages
...of the spondee of quantity is usually supplied by the iambus of accent. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, " As his corse to the rampart we hurried...moon-beam's misty light, " And the lantern dimly burning."" Any ordinary " hexameter"00 may be converted into an " ana" p: 1 -stic tetrameter" by simply adding... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1837 - 540 pages
...spondee of quantity is usually supplied by the iambus of accent. " Not ai! ' l * in was heard, not a funeral note, " As his corse to the rampart we hurried...struggling moon-beam's misty light, " And the lantern dimly burning."s* Any ordinary " hexameter "" may be converted into an " ana" paestic tetrameter" by simply... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...verse, without impairing if« vigour. WOLFE. THE BURIAL OP SIH JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beams misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... 
