 | Sara Coleridge - Coleridge, Sara (Coleridge) 1802-1852 - 1875 - 520 pages
...Abbey." 16. Powers Measured by Results. 17. High Spirits. To Professor HENRY REED, Philadelphia. 1. " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." * This is indeed a most interesting anecdote. Query, is it characteristic of military men to be thus... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 162 pages
...low tone to the other officers in his boat those beautiful stanzas with which a country churchyard inspired the muse of Gray. One noble line, ' The paths...rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' " Hales, in his Introduction to the poem, remarks : " The Elegy is perhaps the most widely known poem... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 380 pages
...a few hours were to close over life's last utterance in the placid content of a victor's death,) he added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec !" This pleasing and pathetic incident was preserved in the memory of the late Professor Robison of... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1876 - 588 pages
...Wolfe alone repeating in a low tone Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard," adding as he finished, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." It was scarcely daybreak when the English army occupied the heights of Abraham. A skirmish had been... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1876 - 826 pages
...officers in the boat with him Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Country Church-yard, 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... | |
 | James Birchall - Great Britain - 1876 - 970 pages
...IV. ,159-162; Wai-burton's Conquest ol Canada, chap. 26. t Masscy's George the Third, I., 37-38. 1759 "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec."* But while the ardent General thus gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was constantly... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - 448 pages
...side, Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard;"6 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... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1877 - 774 pages
...in a Country Churchyard." As his foot touched the land, he turned round to say to his lieutenants, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." It was scarcely day-break when the English army occupied the heights of Abraham. A skirmish had been... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...the whole of Gray's ' Elegy ' in a low voice to the officers in his boat, and said at the close — ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' The first of these anecdotes is a reminiscence of the late Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, who had it... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1879 - 152 pages
...as they floated down the St. Lawrence under Abraham's Heights, and saying, when he had finished it, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ;" or of Wordsworth, meeting a little cottage girl at Conway, and holding converse with her just as... | |
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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... 
