 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...tolled 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 left him alone in his glory. Blittkicovil's Magazine. VIRGIL'S TOMB.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 96 THE POETICAL ALBUM. 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 in his glory. BlackwoocCs Magazine. VIRGIL'S TOMB. BY... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock tolled 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 left him alone with his glory. LESSON CVI. War contrary to the Courses of... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, Wh«n the clock struck 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 ;... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...toll'd the hour for retiring, And we knew by the distant random gun, That the foe was then suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But left' him alone — with his glory. WINTER IN COPENHAGEN.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, . When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing — 8 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him." But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled 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 goryh We... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled 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 field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...clock tolled 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 cr.'.-ved not a line, we raised not a stone, But loft him alone with his glory. LESSON CVI. War contrary... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 pages
...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 left him alone with his glory. Homer's time. I have travelled through... | |
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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. 
