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" Ben. Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot; For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot. "
Once a Week - Página 524
1871
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The Choice Works of Thomas Hood: In Prose and Verse, Including the Cream of ...

Thomas Hood - 1889 - 952 páginas
...The ocean heed his caull " A man's a man f • r .V that.' FAITHLESS NELL Y GRA K A PATHETIC BALLAD. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Volumen6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 498 páginas
...if it did not steal a march upon this rapacious class'? LIV.— FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. FROM HOOD. 1. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold,. And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms I 2. Now, as they bore him off the field, Said...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 páginas
...David — mind, I'm not home, la future, to the Skinners. ) FAITHLESS NELLIE GRAY. A Pathetic Ballad. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now, as they bore him off the field, Said...
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Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 páginas
...embody both wit and wisdom, as the reader acquainted with Hood's writings will not fail to admit : — " Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. " I 'may quote an historical one, attributed...
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Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends, a selection ...

Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. From BEN BATTLE. [Last verse mis-sorted. ] Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. Now as they bore him off the field, Said he,...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...were bother'd, I'm sure, by this Irishman. WILLIAM MAODTÏ. FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. 4 4 4 cannon-ball took off hie legs, So he laid down his arme ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said...
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Poems

Thomas Hood - 1881 - 330 páginas
...Heaven never heard his cry, nor did The ocean heed his caul, FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms : But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said...
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Tit-bits from All the Most Interesting Books, Periodicals and ..., Volumen1

1881 - 432 páginas
...made many admirable legitimate ones. Witness his account of " Ben Battle and Faithless Nelly Gray" :" A cannon ball took off his legs ; So he laid down his ' anna.1 There he left the second leg And the forty-second foot." Even his bastard puns possessed the...
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The Sixth Reader of the Popular Series

Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 páginas
...-with remarkable adroitness. A characteristic piece of this nature is II.— Faithless Nelly Gray. 1. Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. 2. Now, as they bore him off the field, Said...
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The works of Thomas Hood, ed., with notes, by his son [T. Hood] and daughter ...

Thomas Hood - 1882 - 476 páginas
...teach, But wears a floury head, and talks in flow'ry speech ! FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms : But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said...
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