 | Robert Mackenzie - United States - 1870 - 286 pages
...Elegy in a Country Churchyard," then newly received from England ; and he exclaimed at its close, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec to-morrow." He was a man of feeble bodily frame, but he wielded the power which genius in its higher... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1872 - 822 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... | |
 | William Smith - Great Britain - 1873 - 396 pages
...Elegy ' to his officers ; and, pausing on the line, " The paths of glory lead but to the grave." he added, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than 'take Quebec." By one narrow path the troops gained the table-land, and were drawn up in line of battle at daybreak.... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1873 - 812 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1873 - 452 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... | |
 | Sara Coleridge - 1873 - 484 pages
...Abbey." 19. Powers Measured by Results. 20. 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... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1873 - 820 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 tako Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 pages
...he recited to his brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard; and concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...he recited to his brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; and concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1874 - 346 pages
...he recited to his brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; anc concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
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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... 
