 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...boat with him Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Country Church-yard, adding at the end, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed ; an outpost of... | |
 | John H. Bell - Atlantic States - 1870 - 394 pages
...spoke but Wolfe, who repeated to his officers some verses of "Gray's Elegy," observing, "Now gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." I have stood on the shingle of the cove where they landed. You would think there was no pass from below,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...to his officers in the boat with him, and at the close of the recitation, added — "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ;" the gallant soldier and hero realising to the full, within a very few hours, that striking stanza... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1872 - 822 pages
...boat with him Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Country Church-yard, adding at the end, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed ; an outpost of... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1873 - 812 pages
...boat with him Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Country Church-yard, adding at the end, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed; an outpost of... | |
 | William Smith - Great Britain - 1873 - 396 pages
...and, pausing on the line, " The paths of glory lead but to the grave." he added, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than 'take Quebec." By one narrow path the troops gained the table-land, and were drawn up in line of battle at daybreak.... | |
 | Sara Coleridge - 1873 - 484 pages
...Measured by Results. 20. High Spirits. To Professor HENRY REED, Philadelphia. 1. " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec."* This is indeed a most interesting anecdote. Query, is it characteristic of military men to be thus... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 pages
...his brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard; and concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1874 - 346 pages
...brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; anc concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; and concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two... | |
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Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. 
