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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. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 274
1817
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An Essay on Elocution, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...turning', By the trembling moon-beam's misty light", And our lantern dimly burning'. No useless coffinf enclosed his breast', Nor in sheet', nor in shroud', we bound him'; But he lny' . • . like a warriour taking his rest', With his martial cloak around him'. Few and short were...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

1842 - 788 pages
...Lay of Last Minstrel, vi. 23, and Note.) And Sir John Moore did not repose less honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is...
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Selections from the Writings of the Late J. Sydney Taylor: With a Brief ...

John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pages
...hurried ; | farewell shot ero we buried. ^original state, by correcting the q; points out. Eti. Wo boned him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No UHclcss coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light, And our lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed...breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But like a warrior taking his rest, His martial cloak wrapt around him. Few and short were the prayers...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 pages
...Lay of Last Minstrel, vi. 23, and Note.) And Sir John Moore did not repose less honourably, because ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' It is...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 2

1849 - 44 pages
...had fallen amid the smoke and din of conflict, was consigned to his grave with all warlike honors. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud they wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, "With his martial cloak around him." The...
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McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader

William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like...
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The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language

James Chapman - 378 pages
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O1er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not...
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...note, 12691 As his corse to the rampart we hurried. 12718 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' Tx" 12719 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But...
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