 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...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 - American fiction - 1836 - 228 pages
...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 - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...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 - Canada - 1840 - 300 pages
...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 - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 734 pages
...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 - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...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 - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...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 pages
...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 - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...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 - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...low voice to the other officers in his boat those beautiful stanzas with which a country church-yard inspired the muse of Gray. One noble line 'The paths....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... | |
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Not a word was spoken, not a sound was heard beyond the rippling of the stream. Wolfe alone, thus tradition has told us, repeated in a low voice to the other officers in his boat those beautiful stanzas with which a country churchyard inspired the muse... 
