 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1846 - 396 Seiten
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was buried in the citadel... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1846 - 400 Seiten
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was buried in the citadel... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 Seiten
...by the fatal cannon-shot ; it was to him, when attempting to remove his sword, that the dying hero said, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it shouId go out of the field with. me ;" and to him and to Colonel Anderson, Sir John Moore expressed... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 Seiten
...the hilt entered the wound. <3apt. Hardinge attempted to take it off, but he stopped him, saying, " it is as well as it is, I had rather it should go out of the field* with me." Sir David Baird had previously been disabled by a severe wound ; and the command of the army now devolved... | |
 | 1847 - 568 Seiten
...Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, hut the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' And in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. * * * The blood flowed fast,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1847 - 418 Seiten
...celebrity in future times, CAPTAIN HARDINGE, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, " It is as welL as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldiers towards the town, but though the pain of the... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1847 - 440 Seiten
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of (he field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 Seiten
...to Hardinge, who attempted to remove his sword, that the dying hero addressed the energetic words, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" to the same gentleman, and to Col. Anderson, Sir John Moore expressed his satisfaction at falling as... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 Seiten
...sword entered the wound: Captain Harding would have taken it off, but Moore stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me !" It was a long way to the town, and the torture of the motion was great, but the expression of his... | |
 | Robert Huston - 1851 - 234 Seiten
...began to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, 'It is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Six soldiers of the 42d and the Guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his composure, began to hope that... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
