 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1886 - 296 pages
...of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...youth of England — a name which is our pride, and a« example wkiok -will continue to ue our shield and our strength. Thus it is that the spirits of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...our pride, and an example which will continue to be onf shield and our strength. Thus it is that the spirits of the great and the wise continue to live... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - Maritime law - 1894 - 376 pages
...of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this moment inspiring thousands of the youth of England, a name which is our pride and an example which... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 468 pages
...passion and pride find utterance : — " If the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory." From Nelson on the quarter-deck of the Victory, to Cowper caressing his tame hares, the interval is... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...that of the hero in the hour of victory; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...name and an example which are at this hour inspiring hundreds of the youth of England — a name which is our pride, and an example which will continue... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1895 - 494 pages
...that of the hero in the hoar of victory: and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.' P. 146. ' Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 354 pages
...that of the hero in the hour of victory: and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...which will continue to be our shield and our strength. Thus it is that the spirits of the great and the wise continue to live and to act after them; verifying,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 378 pages
...of the hero in the hour of victory : and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed...name and an example, which are at this hour inspiring hundreds of the youth of England : a name which is our pride, and an example which will continue to... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1897 - 324 pages
...that of the hero in the hour of victory. If the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. The most awful death is that of the martyred patriot. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1898 - 320 pages
...of the hero in the hour of victory. If the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed _for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. The most awful death is that of the martyred patriot. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration,... | |
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The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely... 
