 | sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1852 - 482 pages
...bedfellow's neck, until they all formed one long confused mass of yellow hair, upon which he lay down "like a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him." His triumph was greeted with general approbation. I could not, however, help feeling I was witnessing... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1852 - 506 pages
...bedfellow's neck, until they all formed one long confused mass of yellow hair, upon which he lay down " like a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him." His triumph was greeted with general approbation. I could not, however, help feeling I was witnessing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his lireast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest,...short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a woixl of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the fnee of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 286 pages
...meant to kill," where " on " has to be understood to govern " purpose." 72. to all] is pleonastic. He lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him." So. field] by metonymy for the soldiers on the field of battle. APPENDIX I. iii. 65. The use of " calculate... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pages
...the lanthorn 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. 1561 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 8 No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound n ; but the locomotion, the movement onwards, of that mental centre, to which bot 12 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...faith and old feelings fast. 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. 430 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | 1927 - 490 pages
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed 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. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly... | |
 | 1927 - 984 pages
...death, which came to him suddenly in the night-time he seemed like a soldier fallen upon the field.. "He lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him. ' ' He was buried in Fairview cemetery. F. 4, all born at Winthrop, high school graduates and Methodists.... | |
 | 1854 - 600 pages
...was thrown around him, but his soldiers fell unwept, uncoffined, " Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him, They carved not a line, they raised not a stone. Hut left him alone in his glory." True, there may... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed 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. 
