 | 1902 - Počet stránok 642
...finest poems of this kind — Sir Francis Doyle's ' Private of the Buffs,' with its noble moral : ' Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...heart of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.' The desperate... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 788
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. HORSE-BKEAKING... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1866 - Počet stránok 392
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. LADY AGNES. This... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - Počet stránok 458
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who... | |
 | 1870 - Počet stránok 464
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - Počet stránok 968
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - Počet stránok 394
...dreadful brink To his red grave he went. Vnin, mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those all shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...heart of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring A man of mean estât?, Who died as firm as Spnrta's King, Because his soul was great. • Lord Elgin... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - Počet stránok 168
...whine and kneel ; With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king The strong heart of her sons. So, let his... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - Počet stránok 396
...— POPE. "WHERE SOIL is MEN GROW, WHETHER TO WEEDS OR FLOWERS." — KEATS. APOLLO AND MARSYAS. . 329 Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; • Unless proud England keep, untamed, W < Ed M The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - Počet stránok 518
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave be went. ' Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, i The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died,... | |
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Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he... 
