 | 1825 - 508 pages
...burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet or in shroud we wound hi m Km he lay like a Warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1825 - 620 pages
...CHAPTER IV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him ; He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Woolf*. THOUSANDS were spectators of the engagement from the eminences of Boston, and its environs;... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...burning. • No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a Warrior taking his rest— With his martial cloak around him. • Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...burning. No useless coffin enclosed his brefcst, Nor 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 were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1825 - 330 pages
...VOL.L CHAPTER IV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him; He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. JToolfa. THOUSANDS were spectators of the engagement from the eminences of Boston, and its environs;... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined 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. Few and short were the prayers we said , And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 1826 - 520 pages
...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 the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' — ' No,' replied... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrouds we bound him, But he lay his name And lineage long, it suits me not to say ; Suffice it, th Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly ga/ed... | |
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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 wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 
