 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - Liczba stron: 144
...barren. How fine must be the impression which the rays of light produce on the retina of the eye ! and we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved a line, we raised a stone, But we left him in his glory. Ellipsis of the Preposition. Rain is formed... | |
 | Book - 1847 - Liczba stron: 206
...struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field 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. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY.... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1847 - Liczba stron: 424
...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 line, and we raised not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory! The principal errors in most of... | |
 | Book - 1847 - Liczba stron: 216
...struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field 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. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY.... | |
 | 1884 - Liczba stron: 208
...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — Slowly and sadly we laid him down, But we left him alone with his glory... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - Liczba stron: 394
...which relates the last hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and goryWe carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! When the origin... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - Liczba stron: 898
...with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...fame fresh and gory ; —-. We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory.—WOLFK. 1 As to the English armies,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1853 - Liczba stron: 862
...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 line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory." them—the result of fatigue, confinement... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - Liczba stron: 568
...John Moore," by Irish clergyman and poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). The final stanza of the ode says, "slowly and sadly we laid him down,/ From the field...We carved not a line, we raised not a stone—/ But we left him alone in his glon r " (see Hoagland, pp. 388-89). Sir John Moore (1761-1809) was a British... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1986 - Liczba stron: 900
...Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, first published in 1817. The final stanza can serve as an example: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field 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. TIME TO COME First printed New York... | |
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random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory! 
