 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 520 pages
...the hill-side — the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman — but in an honourable grave ; each sleeping " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," in a soldier's grave, though destitute of " storied urn and animated bust," yet cherished in the country's... | |
 | 1841 - 566 pages
...the arduous duties that unquestionable ability entails on its possessor, he was fated to die — " Like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." An open rupture with France appeared at hand. France herself being in a state of revolution, and disposed... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1841 - 514 pages
...to the arduous duties that unquestionable ability entails on its possessor, he was fated to die— " Like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." An open rupture with France appeared at hand. France herself being in a state of revolution, and disposed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...comrades have laid him. 6. No useless coffin inclosed 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. * This beautiful ode, as usual, is ascribed to Wolfe, though more recea discoveries render it probable... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is assumed, of course, that no frightful accumulations of interment would be crowded into a narrow... | |
 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - 1018 pages
...his tartan. NIi useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him ; Rut he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. A barrow was afterwards raised over the chief and his brave companions ; and for many a century, a... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No UHclcss coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like...his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and ghort were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfostly gaz'd on the... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pages
...overhaasting begraven." » No useless coffin confined his breast , Nor in sheet, nor in shroud tee bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him." (Geen onnoodige doodkist beknelde zijne borst e» wij wonden hem in geen doodlaken of lijkkleed ; maar... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin 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. 4. Few and short were the prayers we said — We spoke not a word of sorrow ; But steadfastly gaz'd... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a... | |
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No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. 
