 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...random gun, That tiie foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down, From the field of Jjis fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But wi! left him alone with his glory. HE'LL NEVER MARCH AGAIN I THE tired soldier, bold and brave,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...clock tolled the hour for retiring f And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. LIT. — THE HORRORS OF WAK. Extract from a Sermon of the Rev. Thomas... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...gory; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory.— Wolfe. 39. The Bat. Sing'ular ; remarkable. Vivip'arous ;... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...When the clock 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...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stoneBut we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. 8. — THE MARINER'S DREAM. IN... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...for retiring ; And we heard, too, the distant ranijom gun, That the foe was then suddenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; SECTION V. " Earth to Earth, and Dust to Dust." "EARTH to earth, and dust to dust !" Here the evil... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...gory ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory! THE YEW-TREE SEAT. Who he was That piled these stones, and... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 pages
...hour for retiring ; Aud we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. VIII. 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 stoneBut we left him alone with his glory ! GENERAL ORDERS. BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, the foe was suddenly firing— 8 (jj ) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory! We carved not a lme, we raised not a stone, But left him—alone with his glory! IVulft. EXERCISE 30. Eve lamenting... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...clock toll'd the hour for retiring : And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. Rev c ^oife VOLTAIRE COMPARED... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1833 - 272 pages
...told the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory j We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Homer lived or... | |
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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. 
