 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1863 - 614 pages
...inspired the Muse of Gray. Oue noble line — ' The paths of glory lead but to the grave ' — imist have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful...rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' " What finer test of fame could there be than this ? It is far better and truer than that which Coleridge... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1882 - 544 pages
...repeated Gray's Elegy in a low voice to the officers in the boat with him, and added at the close, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." According to Mr. Palgrave, be expressed himself thus :— " 0 Fame, Fame of duty accomplish'd and pride... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 252 pages
...strong this night to do your duty so bravely and well!" As he concluded the beautiful verses, he said. "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec!" "I am the bird of morn," sang he, "And the morn, I think, is made for me; Its earlier light caresses... | |
 | Military art and science - 1888 - 486 pages
...to the officers in the boat, 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 on shore. The precipitous path was climbed, an outpost of... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1865 - 868 pages
...of night, to make a favorable landing, was heard to repeat Gray's Elegy. As he finished, he said, " I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec." Man rising to a higher position, will yet learn to despise military glory, as did Wolf. Then the Napoleons,... | |
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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... 
