 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...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 - 230 pages
...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 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...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 - 744 pages
...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 ooble tribute for a Warrior to render a Poet, wavering in their adherence to the English, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "Now, gentlemen," said he, when he had finished, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." The descent was made in flat-bottomed boats, past midnight, on the 13th of September. They dropped... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 pages
...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... | |
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Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
