 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...poet were not yet quite dissevered: " Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave, fur thee the best . Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest." Surrounded by turbulent chiefs and an unbridled soldiery — who looked up to him as a master-spirit,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...honourable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best;...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. * Milaoionghi, Jan. 22, 1894. THOMAS PRINGLE. TROMAS PRINGLE was born on the fifth of January,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton (i.e. Bartholomew Elliott George) - Middle East - 1845 - 572 pages
...genius that inspired them. Even this last sad hope was defeated : " Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave ; for thee the best...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest." He lingered unaccountably at Cephalonia, when he might have fought gloriously with Marco Botzaris... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...honourable death Is here — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best,...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thv rest. BYRON. 112. THE BUGLE. But still the dingle's hollow throat Prolong'd the swelling bugle... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...honourable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. 236 THOMAS PRINGLE. TDOMAS PRINGLE was born on the fifth of January, 1787, at Blaiklaw, a few... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...crnnexion between ' prophet and poet were not yet quite diseev-j ered : " Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave, for thee the best ;...Then look around, and choose thy ground. And take thy reat." Surrounded by turbulent chiefs and an unbridled soldiery — who looked up to him as a master-spirit,... | |
 | 412 pages
...not yet OjUite dissevered : — " Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave, for thec the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest." Surrounded by turbulent chiefs and an nnbridled soldiery — who looked up to him as a masterspirit,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...honorable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best...Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest ODE ON VENICE. OH Venice! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall... | |
 | Eliot Warburton (i.e. Bartholomew Elliott George) - Egypt - 1852 - 310 pages
...this last sad hope was defeated: "Seek out - — less often sought than found — A soldier's graye; for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest." He lingered unaccountably at Cephalonia, when he might have turned the scale for Marco Botzaris;... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...honourable death Is here :— up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out— less often sought than found — A soldier's grave for thee the best...Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.* 4 miles to the N. of Mesolonghi are the ruins of an ancient city on a hill, commanding a beautiful... | |
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Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out... 
