 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 páginas
...hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave." As he concluded the beautiful verses, he said, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec!" heights under which he was hurrying. At length he recognized the appointed spot and leaped ashore.... | |
 | David Hume - 1884 - 268 páginas
...officers in the boat with him Gray's beautiful "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," adding at the end, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed ; an outpost of... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 234 páginas
...Gray's Elegy written in a County Churchyard; and as he concluded the beautiful verses, he said : " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." 4. But while Wolfe thus, in the poet's words, gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 páginas
...hour:— The paths of glory lead but to the grave." As he concluded the beautiful verses, he said, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Q,\ cebec!" heights under which he was hurrying. At length he recognized the appointed spot and leaped... | |
 | England - 1884 - 210 páginas
...great stress on one line : — "The path of glory leads but to the grave." " Now, gentlemen," he cried, "I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." When tho boats reached that point at the foot of the cliffs for which they had been steering, tho men... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 páginas
...his side, Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard; and as he concluded the beautiful verses, he 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... | |
 | 1887 - 444 páginas
...boat, in a low voice, Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard;" and, when he finished, said, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe was among the first to leap on shore. There was but one path leading upwards to the brow of the... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 páginas
...General Wolfe, when sailing clown 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...stanzas with which a country church-yard 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 glory... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1886 - 390 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
