 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 6. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...carved not a line, we raised not a stone, '*. But left him alone with his glory ! QUESTIONS. — 1. Who was Sir John Moore1? 2. Where, when, and by whom... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pages
...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.' " " They are beautifiil lines indeed." " Lord Paget, now Marquess of Anglesey, must ever rank as one... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 pages
...new things —the tont prefer new things that have a smell and die. CHAPTER XLVI. " Slowly and eadly we laid him down From the field of his fame, fresh...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." AT the end of a week's visit we left Sugartown for Tip. pecanoe : but with a very diminished party.... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pages
...and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; W T e carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with...The feeling with which he recited these admirable slanzas, I shall never forget. After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and laid It WIM... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly...; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. 1. On what day did Sir John Moore receive his death wound ? 2. What... | |
 | 1844 - 452 pages
...was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory f We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone — with his glory. A SHORT TALE WITH A LONG MORAL. " Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That through grace hath gained... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame freeh and gory ; We carved not a line, and in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er m postage in the Edinburgh Annual Register (1808) on which Wolfe founded his odo is as follows : —... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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 ! WOLFE. THE ROSE. THE rose had been washed, just washed in a shower, Which Mary to Anna conveyed ;... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...Spam, Jan. 16th, 1809. And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing — 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone But we left him — alone with his glory I LESSON XCVI. Boadicea.9 — COWPER. 1. WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...And we heard the distant I and random gun, That the foe I was sullenly firing. Slowly I and sadly I we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh,...not a line, we raised not a stone. But we left him I alone in his glory. 594. c'ABHii's AOAINST слали. Honor— is the subject of my story ;— I... | |
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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 the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a... 
