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 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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 down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone* But left him alone with his glory. IF I had thought thou couldst have died,... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...clock told the hour of retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. WOLFE. HEY MY CHICKEN. HEY my chicken, my chicken, And hey my chicken, my deary! Such... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...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, From the...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. V THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE. A / . BY... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...the clock told the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...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 WAR OF THE LEAGUE. BY THOMAS MACAULEY.... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...considerable military success against Napoleon's forces in Spain. The poem ends: "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — / But we left him alone with his glory" (lines 3 1-32). 16.1533-34 (655:22-23). unless it ensued that ... to be a party to it - There is considerable... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. 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 lines celebrate a heroic memory... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. (1. 11—12) 3 We carved not a line, and And then the Windows failed — and then I could not see (1. 31—32) ChTr; EnRP; FaBoPa; FaBoRV; FaFP; FaPoR; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBEV; OBWP; PoRA; PWR;... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...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 down, From the...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. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S... | |
 | John Beatty - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a Vine, we raised not a stone, But left him aloue with his glory." 13. We are in a field near Harrodsburg.... | |
 | James Joyce - Artists - 1998 - 1060 pages
...Moore at Corunna' (1817), by the Irish poet Revd Charles Wolfe (1791-1823): 'We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone— | But we left him alone with his glory' (Il. 31-2). 609.17 the usual boy Jones: the usual informer, after one 'Jones', Trinity College student... | |
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