 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock 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 ; We carved not a...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 4151821Full view - About this book
 | Bennett George Johns - Spain - 1849 - 268 pages
...struggling moonbeam's misty light And our lanterns dimly burning. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. After Moore's death, Wellesley marched to join the Spanish forces, and at Talavera, after a hard and... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...the hour for retiring, Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory j We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. PARRHASIUS. PARRHASIUS, a painter of Athens, amongst those Olynthian captives Philip... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1849 - 80 pages
...As is a tired horse, or a railing wife. 5. Pathos and Solemnity. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; 6. Elevated Sentiment. We have a common stock... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1850 - 88 pages
...impetuous. Courage, Obstinate. Determination. Impatience. 5. Pathos and Solemnity. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. 6. Elevated Sentiment. We have a common stock both of happiness and of distinction, of... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...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 we left him alone with his glory. ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE. BY MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS. A warrior so bold and a virgin so... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...clergyman and poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). The final stanza of the ode says, "slowly and sadly we laid him down,/ From the field of his fame, fresh and gory;/...line, we raised not a stone—/ But we left him alone in his glonr" (see Hoagland, pp. 388-89). Sir John Moore (1761-1809) was a British general who died... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 394 pages
...hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! When the origin of the words is known, Bloom's irony in linking Dignam and Moore becomes apparent.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...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 we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro. mar'shal), military. 6. Upbraid', to charge with something wrong... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...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,...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Anon. 20. The Lady1s Louking-Glass, CEI.IA and I the other day Walked o1er the .sand-hills to the sea... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...considerable military success against Napoleon's forces in Spain. The poem ends: "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — / But we left him alone with his glory" (lines 3 1-32). 16.1533-34 (655:22-23). unless it ensued that ... to be a party to it - There is considerable... | |
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