 | 1813 - 410 sivua
...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 sivua
...Lightly they'll talk of I he 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...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 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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,...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 to an... | |
 | 1825 - 710 sivua
...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 sivua
...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...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 author... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 434 sivua
...would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But...a stone — But we left him alone with his glory!' pp. 28-31. Mr Wolfe was keenly alive to the impressions of music, and entered into its poetry with... | |
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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,... 
