 By the struggling moonbeam's misty light. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.  The Patrician - Page 290edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Classical philology - 1828 - 358 pages
...it is called by Yirgil VII. " No useless coffin inclosed 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. * * * « We spoke not a word of sorrow, But stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead." Wolfe's Ode... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...even in the attitnde of repose, at once arrested the eye. Tall, athletic, and dignified, " He l.-ty like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." I saw before me one of the bravest, the most distinguished, the most trusted of the Generals who fonght... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior , taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Both few and short were the pray'rs we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly... | |
 | Wales - 1853 - 1162 pages
...where our hero we buried. No useless coffin enclosed hiabreat>t, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Yn fad oedd y tebwrdd, galarnad ni fu, Tr.i ei [rorff i'r amgacrau cyrchasom ; Ni baethai un milwr,... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 372 pages
...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, " With his martial cloak around him." " I should have taken," said Shelley, " the whole for a rough sketch of Campbell's." " No," replied... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, " With his martial cloak around him." " I should have taken," said Shelley, " the whole for a rough sketch of Campbell's." " No," replied... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 314 pages
...dimly burning. 'I No useless coffin confined his breast, M Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound hiifli " But he lay like a warrior taking his rest) '• With his martial cloak around hini. " Few and short were the prayers we said; ''f And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; l> But we steadfastly... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
...burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shrond we bound him, But he lav like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few—and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moon-beams' mist Aui the lantern dimly burning. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast,...But he lay like a warrior taking his rest— With iii'. martial cloak around htm. " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet or in shroud we wound hi m Km he lay like a Warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short... | |
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