 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,...  A Treasure Chest of Memories - Página 351por Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 447 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1825
...upbraid him, But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hii glory !' THE TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.* WE have seldom spent an hour more agreeably than... | |
 | 1825
...him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave' where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we rais'd not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory !' We have described this poem, as the production... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825
...done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. The feeling with which he recited these admirable stanzas, I shall never forget. After he had come... | |
 | 1825
...the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly Bring. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." Of the person who possessed such high poetical merit *, our readers will be glad to know something.... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 358 páginas
...grave where a Briton laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour of retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun...and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fume fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | 1825
...random gun, That the foe waa sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of hu fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." Of the person who possessed such high poetical merit •, our readers will be glad to know something.... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825
...clock 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...of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we lest him alone with his glory. » « On n'entendit pas un tambour , pas... | |
 | 1826
...— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a... | |
 | 1826
...— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 776 páginas
...told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly he plunder'd wreck When mariners would madly meet...doom With draughts intemperate on the sinking deck, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. HOURS OF IDLENESS. Jtfijr Of fit fidf... | |
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