| Book - 1847 - Počet stránok 216
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - Počet stránok 420
...pronounced " the most perfect in the language," was born in Dublin in 1791, and died in 1823.] 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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 moon-beam's... | |
| Aristophanes - 1848 - Počet stránok 522
...except that the place of the spondee of quantity is usually supplied by the iambus of accent. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, " As his corse...struggling moon-beam's misty light, " And the lantern dimly burning."09 Any ordinary " hexameter"00 may be converted into an " ana" pa?stic tetrameter" by simply... | |
| Richard Cannon - 1848 - Počet stránok 174
...furnished the fatigue party in the interment of their revered Commander :— Not a drum was heard,—not a funeral note,— As his corse to the rampart we...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning! 1809 -No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like... | |
| William Russell - 1848 - Počet stránok 94
...sound but the lullaby sung by the rill.' EXERCISES ON PITCH. Lam Notes. ' Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried...buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.'... | |
| 1848 - Počet stránok 460
...and one puhlications of the day, I offer it as it fell mournfully from the poet's own pen. u Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to...his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We huried him darkly — at dead of nicht, The sods with our hayoneta turning; By the struggling... | |
| John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - Počet stránok 424
...speaks ; the French, one of the ingenious Father Prout's versions. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1849 - Počet stránok 118
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, ISOS. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - Počet stránok 446
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
| 1856 - Počet stránok 666
...beauty about them which every sensitive heart at once recognises. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
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