Elegy, supposed to be written on a field of battle / [Anon].

  • Thomas Hancock
Date:
1818
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Credit: Elegy, supposed to be written on a field of battle / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Note 1, Page 8. “ What tho’ the iron school of war erase Each milder virtue, and'each softer grace; What tho’ the fiend’s torpedo-touch arrest Each gentler, finer impulse of the breast; Still shall this active principle preside, And wake the tear to Pity’s self denied. Pleasures of Memory, Part i. p. 26. Note 2, Page 11. u Faint in his wounds, and shiv’ring in the blast, The Swedish soldier sunk—-and groan’d his last! File after file the stormy showers benumb, Freeze every standard-sheet—and hush the drum! Horsemen and horse confess’d the bitter pang, And arms and warriors fell with hollow clang; Yet ere he sunk in Nature’s last repose, Ere life’s warm torrent to the fountain froze, The dying man to Sweden turn’d his eye, Thought of his home, and clos’d it with a sigh! Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. 1.177. Note 3, Page 12. “ This is true glory and renown, when God Looking on th’ earth, with approbation marks The just man, and divulges him thro’ lieav’n To all his angels, who with true applause Recount his praises.-On earth Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame, They err who count it glorious to subdue
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