| Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 páginas
...danger, nights of waking. 3. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hevo we buried. EXERCISES IN VERSIFICATION. 1'imftics to 6e versified, rhyming in couplets, and each... | |
| 1835 - 320 páginas
...THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The turf with our bay'nets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lanterns dimly burning.... | |
| 1836 - 884 páginas
...Admiral Calmady's red nose. LINES ON THF. vl i: [ VI. OF SIB JOHN MOORF. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried : Not a soldier discharged a farewell shot. O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The... | |
| Aristophanes - 1837 - 518 páginas
...the above stanza, which then assumes the following form — disregarding, of course, the sense — " Heard not a funeral note, " As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; " 'Charged his farewell shot, " O'er the grave where our hero we buried." These four English metres... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 páginas
...any of the " gems" which '* The iLirk, unfluhnmed depths of ocran hear.'* WOLFE. THE BUR1AL OF S1R JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note,...his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we hurled. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...gone, and Jack's were spoiled ; Not hoarding much, nor eating fast, I served a needy friend at last." THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero we buried.... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 páginas
...THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 páginas
...mourn: flow forth afresh my tears Beuttie. EXERCISE 29. The Burial of Sir John Moore. 1 ( — )Not a drum was heard, «not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave, where our Hero'was... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...bow was still seen in the sky. LESSON XCV. The Burial of Sir John Moore.*— REV. C. WOLFE. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero was... | |
| Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 páginas
...the C itadel of Corunna, a few hours before the British troops embarked. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was huried. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
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