 | Charles Cooper King - 1897 - Počet stránok 508
...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...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 battle of... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 864
...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...heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe riug — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, . Because hie soul was great. —... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - Počet stránok 376
...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...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons ! I2O The Golden Treasury So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate Who died, as... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - 1899 - Počet stránok 398
...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...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." With the utmost... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - Počet stránok 604
...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...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. 40 See also THE... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - Počet stránok 504
...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; ^ain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep,...of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring, A man of mean estate, Who died as firm as Sparta's king THE ROLI^CALL. NATHANIEL G. SHEPHERD. "CORPORAL... | |
 | Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1900 - Počet stránok 294
...Crown, And type of all her race. • . • • Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, thou all-shattering guns; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. 2 45 Then, there is Doyle's excellent ' Balaclava' poem, which should be read with Tennyson's famous—too... | |
 | Arthur Stanley - 1901 - Počet stránok 408
...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...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... | |
 | 1902 - Počet stránok 308
...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...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. FH Doyle xcv... | |
 | Francis St. John Thackeray, Edward Daniel Stone - 1902 - Počet stránok 324
...recta minis ; perstat in incepto, quamvis mors dira propinquet, funera non timidus sanguinolenta pati. 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. Sir Francis Hastings... | |
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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... 
