 | 1881 - 602 pages
...It led to the grave ! When he had finished the recitation, he said : 'UenUemen, I would prefer bring the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow.' The Elegy was then a recent production. It was published about 1750. Wolfe took Qnebec in 1730." "Hut."... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...to those in the boat with him of the poet Gray, and the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard." " I," said he, " would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow : " and, while the oars struck the river as it rippled in the silence of the night air under the flowing... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 pages
...of the boat nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard, adding, as he concluded, " I would prefer being the author of that Poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." Perhaps no finer compliment was ever paid by the man of action to the man of imagination, and, sanctified,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...feeling, repeated nearly the whole of Gray's " Elegy " to an officer who sat with him in the stern sheet of the boat, adding, as he concluded, that, " He would...poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." It is not recorded if this incident was related to Gray: but to a man of his sensitive and imaginative... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 602 pages
...those in the boat with him of the poet Gray, and his " Elegy in a Country Churchyard," saying, " I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow;" and, while the oars struck the river as it rippled under the flowing tide, he repeated : The boast... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 600 pages
...those in the boat with him of the poet Gray, and his " Elegy in a Country Churchyard," saying, " I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow;" and, while the oars struck the river as it rippled under the flowing tide, he repeated: The boast of... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave 1 ' At the close he whispered : ' Now, gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow.' 25. The flotilla reached a cove which Wolfe had marked for a landing place, and which still bears his... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 686 pages
...alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave." " I would prefer," said he, " being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." But he knew that he lived under the eye of Pitt and of his country. On the morning of the 13th of September,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the gravel" At the close he whispered: "Now, gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." 6. The flotilla reached a cove which Wolfe had marked for a landing-place (and which still bears his... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...General Wolfe, who, with the " fateful heights of Abraham " before him, declared of Gray's Elegy, — " I would prefer being the author of that poem, to the glory of beating the French tc-morrow : " " So fails, so languishes, grows dim, and dies, All that this world is proud of," —... | |
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
