But half of our weary 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... The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell - Страница 324аутор(и): - 1907Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 1813 - 410 страница
...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...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH. PHCEBE CAREY. Not a sigh was heard, nor a funeral tone,... | |
| 1825 - 508 страница
...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...we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hii glory !' THE TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.* WE have seldom spent an hour more agreeably than... | |
| 1825 - 600 страница
...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...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 the production... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 страница
...done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...not 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... | |
| 1825 - 710 страница
...the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly Bring. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." Of the person who possessed such high poetical merit *, our readers will be glad to know something.... | |
| Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 страница
...hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. VIII. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! The principal errors in most of the copies of this poem were pointed out by an early friend of the... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 страница
...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...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! TO THE MEMORY OF A VERY PROMISING CHILD, WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING HEB LAST MOMENTS. I CANNOT weep,... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 страница
...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...not a stone,-" But we left him alone with his glory ! in contact with the soldiers under Romana, and partly from the dreadful ?privations which we had... | |
| 1828 - 814 страница
...When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. " Wolfe. ON A TOMBSTONE IN CHESHIRE. O stranger ! let no ill-timed tear Be shed for those who slumber... | |
| 1828 - 316 страница
...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...firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the 6eld of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carvtd not a line, — and we raised not a stone,— But we left... | |
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