 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 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 ! THOMAS CAMPBELL. CLXXVII. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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 his death-bed of fame. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. _ When public bodies... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...And coming events cast their shadows before.4 Lockiel't Warning. 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. ibid. And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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. T. CAMPBELL. WILLIAM PITT. AT the commencement of... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 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 CLXXXVI.— SONG OF THE WAR. 1. IN their... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 Seiten
...it ceases to beat, With the smoke of its ashes to poison the gale 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. We are Seven. A SIMPLE child, That lightly... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1883 - 422 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 foe I And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven from the death-bed of fame. Thomas... | |
 | Karl Seitz - 1883 - 102 Seiten
...Logan. — Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble. H4B 3. 2. — A fieo for the phrase. Wiv. 1. 3. — With his back to the field and his feet to the foe. Campbell : Lochiel's Warning. — If angels fight, weak men must fall. R2. 3. 2. — Fight a good fight.... | |
 | Joseph Sanderson - 1883 - 514 Seiten
...ebbing from him, upon his elbow on the green turf where he had fallen, as his countrymen always fall, with his back to the field and his feet to the foe, he said, "Macdonald, I'm not dead, but I'm watching how my children fight." My dear friends, the great... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 Seiten
...or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, 85 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. a-vaunt' bea'-cons mys'-tic-al sooth'-less... | |
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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... 
