 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...tell them the reason of his resemblance to another gallant hero famous in the realm of song, as — " Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms, But a cannon ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. And as they bore him off the field, Says he,... | |
 | Henri van Laun - French language - 1863 - 312 pages
...opened his mouth, lifted up his eyes, and raised his hands. 6. His face looks quite red and swollen. 7. A cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. — HOOD. 8 When I spoke to him, he cast down his eyes, and did not answer. 9. Be a man's vocation... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 522 pages
...In fulsome odes too many to be cited, The tenderness of Spring is all my eye, And that is blighted ! FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. BEN BATTLE...But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down bis arms ! Now, as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others shoot, For here I leave my second... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell." Or, again, with regard to Ben Battle : — "Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's...his arms ! " Now, as they bore him off the field, Says he, ' Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot.' " But, in... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 524 pages
...in his berth, At forty-odd befell : They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war' s alarms : But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...recovered of the hite, The dog it was that died. Ooldtmitk. 12. — FAITHLESS NELLIE GRAY. BEN BATTI.B was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms: But a cannon-ball took oft' his legs, So he laid down his arms! Now as they bore him oft' the field, Said he, " Let others... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...blundered, We'll give you six score to the hundred. 14.— NELLY GRAY. THOMAS I loon. [See page 429.] BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms...cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Nelly Gray. 529 Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others shoot, For here I leave... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...puns and levities, there is a "spirit of good" directed to some kindly or philanthropic object] 1. BEX BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms...cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. 2. Now, as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others^ shoot ; For here I leave my second leg,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 410 pages
...The ocean heed his caul. ' A man 'sa man for a' that." FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. |] EN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms...But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down Ms arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others shoot, For here I leave my second... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...wiib early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball look off his legs, So he laid down his arms I Now, as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others... | |
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BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms : But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot 1 
