 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1873 - 606 σελίδες
...been thus translated, truthfully, and with all the spirit of the original, by Sir EL Bulwer * — * Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...bear's fat haunch beside — The journey hence is long ! 1 And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle-day Shore with quick strokes — he took... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1873 - 530 σελίδες
...buried with his most useful weapons and precious ornaments. " Bring here the last gifts ; and with them The last lament be said. Let all that pleased and yet may please, Be buried with the dead " was no unmeaning funeral song, but involved the sacrifice of the most precious and prized objects,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1876 - 386 σελίδες
...against these customs, which are evidently of sentimental origin — " Now bring the last sad gifts, with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased and still may please Be buried with the dead." The bier was borne by slaves, as the head men would not... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1878 - 640 σελίδες
...the funeral rites of an Indian tribe, as thus beautifully embodied in a poetic dirge by Schiller : " Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last...pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead." — Sir EB LYTTON. The origin of the custom of placing objects belonging to the deceased with him in... | |
 | 1870 - 644 σελίδες
...(translated by Lytton) well express this practice so common among the aborigines of our own day : — " Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last lament be said ; Let nil that pleased, and yet may please, Bo buried with the dead. Beneath his head the hatchet hide That... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1880 - 382 σελίδες
...richest funeral gifts, and covered with the heaped-up soil. " Here bring the last gifts, and with them The last lament be said, Let all that pleased and yet may please Be buried with the dead." The arrangements of burial differed among different tribes. In ancient Micmac graves, in Prince Edward... | |
 | 1884 - 668 σελίδες
...characteristic features in a poetic dirge. I give Bulwer's translation, as quoted by Sir Charles Lyell : " Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...— The journey hence is long ! " And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's... | |
 | John Allen Brown - 1887 - 270 σελίδες
...which commences with "Bringet her die letzten Gaben," and which Sir EL Bulwer has thus translated : — Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last...his head the hatchet hide That he so stoutly swung; * "Ten years diggings in Celtic and Saxon Gravehills " — "Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire."... | |
 | John Allen Brown - 1887 - 272 σελίδες
...Sir EL Bulwer has thus translated : — Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last lament he said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be...his head the hatchet hide That he so stoutly swung; * "Ten years diggings in Celtic and Saxon Gravehills " — "Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire."... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1889 - 636 σελίδες
...creed of palaeocosmic man is that summed up by Lyell in his quotation of the lines, — " Bring here the last gifts, and with these The last lament be...pleased and yet may please Be buried with the dead." One remark of the Belgian geologists must be noticed here. The deposits of the mammoth ago, and it... | |
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Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The... 
