 | sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1852
...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 - 495 стор.
...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 - 1100 стор.
...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
...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... | |
 | 1854
...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... | |
 | 1871
...the point, proceeded to get into the neat white cot assigned to him in full military array. There ** he lay, like a warrior Taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him." Should the superintendent enforce the rules of the establishment and consider such eccentricity as... | |
 | 1888
...on the battle-field— " 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 cloak around him." We cannot hope to dispense with coffins, nor to bury our friends, nor to be buried, like the soldier,... | |
 | 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
...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 assumed, of course, that no frightful accumulations of interment would be crowded into a narrow... | |
 | 1849
...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 bugle's wailing note blended mournfully with the steady beat of the muffled drum, and the cannon's... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1971 - 423 стор.
...robes. When the robes were taken away the body of a splendid specimen of Indian manhood was disclosed. "He lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him." His stern and royal look, the iron majesty of his features, even though composed in death, revealed... | |
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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. 
