 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Cook Todd - Canada - 1840 - 300 pages
...barge, the 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
...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!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...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!"* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 pages
...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."* On reaching the northern bank at the spot designed, — and Wolfe was amongst the first... | |
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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. 
