 | 1844 - 616 Seiten
...Wyoming, to amend the poem. The (bur last lines originally ran : — " Shall victor exult or in death be laid low With his back to the field and his feet to...the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heav'n from the death-bed of fame." A noble passage nobly conceived ; but hear how... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 Seiten
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foel And leaving in battle no blot nn his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame.... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...laurels in triumph from the combat ; or stretched upon the battle ground like the brave Lochiel, " With his back to the field and his feet to the foe !" 2. The next great «nd of government is internal prosperity. It would extend these lectures far... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet...the foe! And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame. LESSON XXVI. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. I: — all,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet...the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame. CAMPBELL. XIX. METAPHOR. Metaphor is that figure... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With hia back to the field, and his feet to the foe; And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the deathbed of Fame. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...flight or by chains, While the kindting of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet...the foe; And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the deathbed of Fame. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 Seiten
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult or in death be laid low — With his back to the field, and his feet...foe ! And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame ! CATO ON THE SOUL'S IMMORTALITY.— ADDISON. ("CATO... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 Seiten
...flight or by chain*, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foel And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 Seiten
...or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall, victor, exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet...the foe. And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven from the death-bed of fame. EXORDIUM OF A SPEECH. WEBSTER. % [The learner may... | |
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Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With... 
