The Writer of "The Burial of Sir John Moore" DiscoveredT. Thatcher, 1908 - 93 páginas |
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... ordered away , and not suffered to pay him their last duty . The officers of his family bore him to the grave ; the funeral service was read by the chaplain , and the corpse was covered with earth . " Fired with the eloquence of this ...
... ordered away , and not suffered to pay him their last duty . The officers of his family bore him to the grave ; the funeral service was read by the chaplain , and the corpse was covered with earth . " Fired with the eloquence of this ...
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... ordered one to return , but the fellow swore at me and snapped his rifle , which fortunately missed fire . I ought to have shot him on the spot , or delivered him up to be hanged , but I disliked to have a fellow creature put to death ...
... ordered one to return , but the fellow swore at me and snapped his rifle , which fortunately missed fire . I ought to have shot him on the spot , or delivered him up to be hanged , but I disliked to have a fellow creature put to death ...
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... ordered another man to be furnished by the company that John belonged to , and the latter was sent in to sponge his musket , afterwards to go to punishment - drill . Another man would have got the guard - house ; but John escaped that ...
... ordered another man to be furnished by the company that John belonged to , and the latter was sent in to sponge his musket , afterwards to go to punishment - drill . Another man would have got the guard - house ; but John escaped that ...
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... ordered him to be kept an hour longer . " " send " Orderly , " said said the sergeant - major , Corporal Smith here to drill this fellow , be quick about it , now . " " Move on , you blockhead ! " addressing Simple John . " Up your head ...
... ordered him to be kept an hour longer . " " send " Orderly , " said said the sergeant - major , Corporal Smith here to drill this fellow , be quick about it , now . " " Move on , you blockhead ! " addressing Simple John . " Up your head ...
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... ordered him to halt and go through the manual exercise . The exercise so called is that of the musket ; and John was made to perform the various motions , receiving at the same time sundry sharp admonitions with a cane on the ankles and ...
... ordered him to halt and go through the manual exercise . The exercise so called is that of the musket ; and John was made to perform the various motions , receiving at the same time sundry sharp admonitions with a cane on the ankles and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 25 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou should'st smile no more. And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak, thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid, And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary ! thou art dead.
Página 74 - Few and short were the prayers we said And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Página 82 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern 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 cloak around him.
Página 82 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 74 - 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.
Página 16 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Página 15 - No coffin 12 458 459 could be procured ; and the officers of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was, in a military cloak and blankets. The interment was hastened ; for, about eight in the morning, some firing was heard, and the officers feared that, if a serious attack were made, they should be ordered away, and not suffered to pay him their last duty. The officers of his family bore him to the grave; the funeral service was read by the chaplain ; and the corps was covered with earth.
Página 27 - ... piled up with his books, a small rickety table before the fire-place, covered with parish memoranda, and two trunks containing all his papers — serving at the same time to cover the broken parts of the floor, — constituted all the furniture of his sitting-room. The mouldy walls of the closet in which he slept were hanging with loose folds of damp paper...
Página 10 - I made him listen to me as I read the passage, which he heard with deep and sensible emotion. We were both loud and ardent in our commendation of it, and after some little time I proposed to our friend to take a walk into the country. He consented, and we bent our way to Simpson's nursery, a place about half-way between Dublin and the Rock.
Página 25 - twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook That I must look in vain ! But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid ; And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary ! thou art dead ! If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene — I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been. While e'en thy chill, bleak corse I have, Thou seemest still mine own ; But there I lay thee in thy grave — And I am now alone...