 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 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. Var contrary to the Courses of... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1831 - 436 pages
...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! From the field of his fame fresh and gory; STANZAS. If I had thought... | |
 | 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. WoLrr. 8.—TaE MARINER'S DREAM. IN slumbers of midnight... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; THE BAT. 145 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 Sat. Sing'ular ; remarkable.... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the hour for retiring; And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 7. 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 LXXX. C. Wolfe. The Resistance of... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 486 pages
...bound him, But he lay like a warrior takiug 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 line—we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." Search was made for the body of... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 316 pages
...toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard, too, the distant random 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 Vv u Earth to Earth, and Dust to Dust." "EARTH to earth, and dust to dust!" Here the... | |
 | John Pierpont - American literature - 1832 - 292 pages
...random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory. From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; LESSON CVI. War contrary to the Courses of Nature, and... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 420 pages
...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...of his fame fresh and gory! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him—alone with his glory 6. Eve lamenting the loss of Paradise. “(.—)... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...And we heard the distant and random gun, ~~ the foe was suddenly firing— 8 ( s ) Slowly and sidly 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! It'ulfe. EXERCISE 30. Eve lamenting the... | |
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random gun' That the foe || was sullenly firing*. 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 left him || alone with his glory*. ™. ^^ LESSON 
