 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...began to unbuckle it; but the general said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the forty-second and the guards bore him. Hardinge, observing... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...began to unbuckle it ; but the general said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the forty-second and the guards bore him. Hardinge, observing... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...began to unbuckle it ; but the general said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the forty-second and the guards bore him. Hardinge, observing... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...which induced Captain Hardinge to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, " It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me. " Six soldiers of the 42d and guards now bore him away. Hardinge observing... | |
 | Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...which induced Captain Hardinge to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, " It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me. " Six soldiers of the 42d and guards now bore him away. Hardinge observing... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 506 pages
...began to unbuckle it ; but the general said, in his tunal tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Six soldiers of the 42nd and the Guards bore him."} " Nay, take not my sword... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 394 pages
...the hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge attempted to take it off, but he stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is, I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Sir David Baird had previously been disabled by a severe wound ; and the... | |
 | William Maginn - 1829 - 228 pages
...shattered arm, and might give pain ; but the hero, seeing their intention, said to the officers — " It is as well as it is — I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the 42d now gently raised the blanket from the ground, and... | |
 | England - 1830 - 1006 pages
...the hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge attempted to take it off, but he stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is, I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Sir David Baird had previously been disabled by a severe wound ; and the... | |
 | 1831 - 786 pages
...sudden pang. Captain Hardinge would hare taken off the sword, but the general stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me I' With these words he was home from the battle. It was a long way to the... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
