 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring...  Songs of Three Centuries - الصفحة 153المحررون: - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 383عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and...of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH. PHCEBE... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...tolf'd the hour for retiring, And we beard the distant random gun That the foe was suddenly tiring. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory. ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER. Friday Evening, June 20. Hero of the North. — Lady of the Lake. THIS... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 1264
...toll'd the hour for retiring} ' And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. MR. MR. CAMPBELL'S ODE ON THE RETIREMENT :F MR. JP KEMBLE. Pride of the British stage, A long and last... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random guq, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Sir John Moore, was killed by a cannon shot in the moment of victory, at the battle of Corunna, Jan.... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly firing, " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, " From...a stone, " But we left him alone with his glory." The feeling with which he recited these admirable stanzas, I shall never forget. After he had come... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. X.IGBT DRAGOONS. ON the peace of 1763, this regiment was reviewed by His late Majesty in Hyde-Park,—when... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the...of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hii glory !' THE TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.*... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave' where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we rais'd not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory !' We have described this poem, as... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly he plunder'd wreck When mariners would madly meet...yet inspire a cheer, which he forbore to check. Stop HOURS OF IDLENESS. Jtfijr Of fit fidf a/fast, fiacre ri ytixei. HOM». He whittled as he vent for want... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the...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 ! in contact with the soldiers... | |
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