 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...finished his X- recitation, he added in a tone still guardedly low, but earnest 1759. and emphatic, — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec :" 1 — perhaps the noblest tribute ever paid by arms to letters, since the time when the poetry of... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American fiction - 1836 - 228 pages
...looked around him, and, seeing the effect it had made, he said, in a still more suppressed tone, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' What a tribute to poetical genius ! — for it too often happens that the mere soldier has no sympathy... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...finished his x- recitation, he added in a tone still guardedly low, but earnest 1759. and emphatic, — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec :" 1 — perhaps the noblest tribute ever paid by arms to letters, since the time when the poetry of... | |
 | Henry Cook Todd - Canada - 1840 - 300 pages
...whole of Giay's Elegy in a Country Church Yard, then just published ; and upon conclusion, added, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than even to take Quebec." A greater tribute from arms to letters, considering the position in which this... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added : " Now, Gentlemen, I would rather " be the author of that poem than take Quebec!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first to leap on... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added : " Now, Gentlemen, I would rather " be the author of that poem than take Quebec!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first to leap on... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...with muffled oars to the riverside where he and many another brave Englishman were to die. " I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." said he, closing the quotation. Which of her Britannic Majesty's officers would say such things now ? Take any... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...United States, vol. iv., p. 51. Church-yard;" and as he concluded the beautiful Sept. verses, said, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ! " But while Wolfe thus, in the poet's words, gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye... | |
 | Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 734 pages
...Yard," in which occurs the prophetic line above quoted: and at the conclusion of it, he remarked: — " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec." What a noble tribute for a Warrior to render a Poet wavering in their adherence to the English, and... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...his side, " Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard;" and as he concluded the beautiful verses, said, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec !" But while Wolfe thus, in the poet's words, gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was... | |
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
