 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pàgines
...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone wilh his glory. COWPER. Born 1731— Died 1800. The Biographers of Cowper are fond of tracing his origin... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pàgines
...sullenly firing. Slowly 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...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 pàgines
...like a warrior taking his rest, Slowly and sadly we hud him down, With his martial cloak around him. From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not A Few and short were the prayers we said, stone. And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we left him alone... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pàgines
...was suddenly firing. When the clock struck the hour for retiring; Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! From the field of his fame fresh and gory: ADDRESS TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY. WOLFE. THE success of the... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pàgines
...random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of liis fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. IF I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee ;... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 pàgines
...Slowly and eadly we laid him down From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pàgines
...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,...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 ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sailly bis glory! The passage in the Edinburgh Annual Register (1808) on which Wolfe founded his ode is as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame freeh might steal on me, And I might feel 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 : —... | |
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We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
