 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 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...the foe ; And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the deathbed of fame." Campbell has there concentrated, in a short poem,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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 ! 14. PHILIP VAN AKTEVELDE'S DEFENCE OF HIS REBELLION.... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 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.—Alexander's Feast; or, the Power... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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 ! 14. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE'S DEFENCE OF HIS REBELLION.... | |
 | 1852 - 638 Seiten
...would not fight manfully to the last gasp against any odds ? and — '" As victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe." But this is not our destiny. We are fighting La an enemy's country, whose policy it is not to expose... | |
 | Francis Brown Eaton - 1852 - 174 Seiten
...Bunker Hill, and at the taking of Burgoyne. When at Bunker Hill, laying down while he loaded his gun, " with his back to the field and his feet to the foe," a butlet finding its way through the fence, struck him on the 11 foot ; he picked it up with the intention... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 404 Seiten
...Wyoming," to amend the poem. The last four 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 hit name, Look proudly to Heaven from the death-bed of fame." A noble passage nobly conceived ; but... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 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 to the foe ! 85. And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 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 hcav'n from the death-bed of fame. HOIIENLIKDEN. ON Linden, when the sun was low, All... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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 ! 14 'HILIP VAN ARTEVELDE'S DEFENCE OF HIS RERELLION.... | |
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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... 
