 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 Seiten
...repeated this elegy to his companions. On concluding its recitation, he exclaimed, " Now, gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow ! " Such was the impression Gray produced when he handled subjects that touched the feelings and passions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 Seiten
...Churchyard.' Upon concluding the recitation, he said to his companions in arms, ' Now, gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow !' Connected with the same great event is an extract from a letter of Jan. 23, 1760 ;— ' The officer... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 Seiten
...repeated this Elegy. Upon conludmgthe recitation, he said to his companions in arms, " Now, gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem, to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." This Elegy, like Gray's other poems, appears to have been much elaborated in thought, and subject to... | |
 | John Mercier McMullen - 1855 - 552 Seiten
...beautiful legacy he gave the world in his il Elegy in a Country Church-yard." " I would prefer," said he, " being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow;" and, while the cautious dip of the oars into the rippling current alone broke the stillness of the... | |
 | george bancropt - 1856 - 496 Seiten
...spoke 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 ;"3 and while the oars struck the river as it rippled in 1 Wolfe to Win. Kickson, 1 Dec., bee ; to... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 Seiten
...spoke 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 ;" 3 and while the oars struck the river as it rippled in the silence of the night air under, the flowing... | |
 | John Hyde - 1857 - 388 Seiten
...and also Wolfe's expression on the night before the battle of the Heights of Abraham, when he said he would 'prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow.' There is a description, with a vignette of the Stoke Pogie Church, Buckinghamshire, the" churchyard... | |
 | Willis Russell - 1857 - 178 Seiten
...to those in the boat with him , of the poet Gray, and the elegy in a country church yard. " 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 eilence of the night air, under the flowing... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 Seiten
...General, with much feeling, repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy to an officer who sat with him in the stern of the boat, adding, as he concluded —...poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow.' " Wolfe was a young man, and on the following day was to realize the truth of one of the grandest lines... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 Seiten
...recorded that, as tin y rowed along, Wolfe repeated aloud nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy, and declared that " he would "prefer being the author of that "...poem to the glory of beating the "French to-morrow." See 'Biogra' pliical Account of the late Professor ' Robison,' by Playfair. " was a rendezvous for... | |
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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. 
