| Classical philology - 1828 - 358 pages
...Mysia, and hence it is called by Yirgil VII. " No useless coffin inclosed his breast, '] . . . • Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, . . . But he...taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. * * * « We spoke not a word of sorrow, But stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead." Wolfe's Ode... | |
| Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning,— By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| 1817 - 708 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The eads with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-benm's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our tmxonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior , taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Both few and short were the pray'rs we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly... | |
| Wales - 1853 - 1162 pages
...where our hero we buried. No useless coffin enclosed hiabreat>t, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Yn fad oedd y tebwrdd, galarnad ni fu, Tr.i ei [rorff i'r amgacrau cyrchasom ; Ni baethai un milwr,... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turninjr, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short... | |
| 1821 - 732 pages
...buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless...enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few — and... | |
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