 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1886 - 390 sider
...repeated in whispers, ' Grey's Elegy,' then not long published, to some of the officers, observing, ' I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' As they landed, they were challenged by a sentry, but one of the captains replied, ' La France,' and... | |
 | Elias Benjamin Sanford - 1887 - 396 sider
...hour, he repeated the stanzas of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and as he closed, quietly said, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." At the head of his brave soldiers he guided the way up the narrow path, where two men could not go... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 666 sider
...inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "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 1 3th of September. They dropped... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 sider
...when sailing down to attack Quebec, recited the Elegy to his officers, and declared, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Lord Byron called the Elegy "the corner-stone of Gray's poetry." Gray ranks with Milton as the most... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 sider
...country churchyard inspired the muse of Gray ; and at the close of the recitation, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' " For himself, he was within a few hours to find fulfilment of that noble line, — " The paths of... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 sider
...London, and educated at Cambridge College, was a lyric poet to whose fame even the famous pay tribute. "I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec," were the words of the gallant Wolfe on the night upon which he bought fame and paid for it with. his... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 670 sider
...inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." " 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 I3th of September. They dropped... | |
 | Reginald Heber Holbrook - 1886 - 56 sider
...church-yard inspired the muse of Gray, and at the close of the recitation said : ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' "* In a few hours he and Montcalm verified the noble line, "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 540 sider
...published by Gray some years before. One of these lines was, ' The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' 'Now, gentlemen,' he said, 'I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ! ' At last the boats reached the point at the foot of the cliffs for which they had been steering.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 644 sider
...by Gray some years before. One of these lines was, 1 The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' -, gentlemen,' he said, ' I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ! ' At last the boats reached the point at the foot of the cliffs for which they had been steering.... | |
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Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
