| James Grahame - 1836 - 486 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| James Grahame - 1836 - 480 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Cook Todd - 1840 - 300 páginas
...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... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 páginas
...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!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first to leap on... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 páginas
...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!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first to leap on... | |
| 1887 - 890 páginas
...with muffled oars to the riverside where he and many another brave Englishman were to die. " I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." said he, closing the quotation. Which of her Britannic Majesty's officers would say such things now ? Take any... | |
| George Warburton - 1849 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
| Orsamus Turner - 1849 - 734 páginas
...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 - 1850 - 376 páginas
...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... | |
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