 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 sider
...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 - 416 sider
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 sider
...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 Reed - 1855 - 404 sider
...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... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1856 - 268 sider
...but to the grave," etc. Having finished the poem, he added, in low but emphatic tones, " Gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec to-morrow." 10* About an hour before the dawn, the landing was accomplished, Wolfe being among the... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 sider
...voice to the officers, his companions, the verses of Gray's Elegy, jnst received from England. " There, gentlemen," he said, " I would rather be the author of that poem, than the conqueror of Canada ! " Burns, and Cowper, and other poets loved to allude to him, and Wordsworth... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 sider
...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... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 702 sider
...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.'" A fitting tribute to the memory of both of these gallant men has been erected at Quebec. It is thus... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
..."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... | |
 | Osmond Tiffany - 1858 - 300 sider
...lingering look behind ? " He closed with a short panegyric on the Elegy, saying, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." The profound silence which followed, proved how completely his officers were penetrated by the exquisite... | |
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Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
