 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pàgines
...where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour of retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! YOUNG LOCHINVAR. 0, YOUNG Lochinvar is come out of the West! Through all the wide Border his steed... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1863 - 370 pàgines
...In the grave— where a BRITON has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clack told the hour for retiring And we heard the distant and...of his fame fresh and gory ! We carved not a LINE — we raised not a STONE — But we left him ALONE in his GLORY. The last two lines must be read with... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pàgines
...Christian. If I but catch him once upon the kip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 2. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...line, and we raised not a stOne, But we left him alone in his glory ! 8. 0 thou that with surpassing glory crown'd Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! Penny Magazine, 18U3. SCOTS wha hae wi' Wallace bleijl, Scots wham Bruce has often led, Welcome to... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 pàgines
...Christian. If I but catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 2. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory ! 3. O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pàgines
...upbraid him,— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the...a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE.* 15.— THE DESTRUCTION OP SENNACHERIB. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pàgines
...upbraid him, — but nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on in the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, when the...— but we left him alone with his glory. C. WOLFE l WINIFREDA AWAY ; let nought to love displeasing, my Winifreda, move your care ; let nought delay... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 194 pàgines
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! WoLFE. CHEVY CHASE. GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pàgines
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro. mar'shal), military. 6. Upbraid', to charge with something wrong... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pàgines
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field...not a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory with a beauty inseparable from the English language - one untranslatable,... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,... 
