 | James Grahame - 1836 - 480 pagine
...finished his x- recitation, he added in a tone still guardedly low, but earnest 1759. and emphatic, — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec :" 1 — perhaps the noblest tribute ever paid by arms to letters, since the time when the poetry of... | |
 | James Grahame - 1836 - 486 pagine
...finished his X- recitation, he added in a tone still guardedly low, but earnest 1759. and emphatic, — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec :" 1 — perhaps the noblest tribute ever paid by arms to letters, since the time when the poetry of... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1836 - 228 pagine
...looked around him, and, seeing the effect it had made, he said, in a still more suppressed tone, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' What a tribute to poetical genius ! — for it too often happens that the mere soldier has no sympathy... | |
 | Henry Cook Todd - 1840 - 300 pagine
...barge, the whole of Giay's Elegy in a Country Church Yard, then just published ; and upon conclusion, added, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than even to take Quebec." A greater tribute from arms to letters, considering the position in which this... | |
 | Orsamus Turner - 1849 - 734 pagine
...Yard," in which occurs the prophetic line above quoted: and at the conclusion of it, he remarked: — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec." What a noble tribute for a Warrior to render a Poet wavering in their adherence to the English, and... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 pagine
...United States, vol. iv., p. 51. Church-yard;" and as he concluded the beautiful Sept. verses, said, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ! " But while Wolfe thus, in the poet's words, gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 376 pagine
...his side, " Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard;" and as he concluded the beautiful verses, said, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec !" But while Wolfe thus, in the poet's words, gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pagine
...hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "Now, gentlemen," said he, when he had finished, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." The descent was made in flat-bottomed boats, past midnight, on the 13th of September. They dropped... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 pagine
...his recitation, he added ma tone still guardedly low, but earnest and emphatic, _ « Now gentle men, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec :"perhaps the noblest tribute ever paid by arms to letters, since that heroic era when hostile fury... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pagine
...grave'»must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation, Wolfe added, 'Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec!' "* Of Gray, and Goldsmith, and Cowper this is also to be remembered — that they have enriched the... | |
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
