 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound 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, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Fashion - 460 pages
...magnificent room, except the taste with which it is fitted up. The figure of Napoleon, as he is laid, " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," is highly imposing, and strikes the beholder with reverence; while turning to the opposite side, we... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...enclosed his breast', Nor in sheet', nor in shroud', we bound him'; But he lay' . . . like a warriour taking his rest', With his martial cloak around him'. Few and short were the prayers we said', We spoke not a word of sorrow'; Bat steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead', And bitterly thought'... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound 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, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 6. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like...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
...repose less 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... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 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. 
