| Elias Benjamin Sanford - Connecticut - 1887 - 396 pages
...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 - United States - 1887 - 666 pages
...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... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...stanzas with which a 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 Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 pages
...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.'"1 For himself, he was within a few hours to find fulfilment of that noble line — "The paths... | |
| John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 670 pages
...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... | |
| William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...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... | |
| Reginald Heber Holbrook - 1886 - 56 pages
...which a country 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."... | |
| John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1891 - 478 pages
...loud voice to the other officers in his boat those beautiful stanzas with which a country churchyard inspired the muse of Gray. One noble line — "The...rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." ' No unmeet opponent of Wolfe was the brave Marquis de Montcalm, who was struck with a musket ball... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 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...rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' " To the lover of Gray, however, more pleasing than such distinctions as these is the thought that... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1891 - 192 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.' " In the summer of 1750 Gray wrote the humorous verses entitled a Long Story, — a mock-heroic or... | |
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