 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...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 ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory, ' Homer's time. I have travelled through... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...the hour for retiring, And we heard 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 ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory ! PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...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 carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. LESSON CVI. War contrary to the Courses of... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...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 carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory. THE STAR.— Read, i How brilliant... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...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 field of his fame, fresh and gory ; \Ve carved not a line,— and we raised not a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory ! in... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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 field...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 slumbers of midnight... | |
 | 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 of his fame fresh and 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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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 field of his fame fresh and 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...hour 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 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...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 THE DUKE OF YORK.... | |
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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, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
