 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...to Heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. " But if we fail — ? " They never fail who die In a great cause ! The block may soak their gore •...; — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though yean Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which... | |
 | Alice Somerton - 1858 - 426 pages
...sacrifice ascend to Heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. * * * * They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore, Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs lie strung to city gates, and castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad. BYRON. WHEN Lord Grey... | |
 | David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...uniting the present with the past, and recalling their sublime transactions. " They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore,...strung to city gates and castle walls ; But still their spirits walk abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep... | |
 | William P. Tomlinson - 1859 - 328 pages
...Montgomery turned to him and repeated the following sublime lines of Byron : — " They never fail who dio In a great cause: the block may soak their gore, Their...their limbs Be strung to city gates, and castle walls, Yet still their spiiits stalk abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but... | |
 | James Redpath - 1860 - 530 pages
...t!tr In a great cause : the block may soak their gore, Their beads may sodden in the sun ; their llmbt Be strung to city gates and castle walls; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Jtlapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thought• Which overpower... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...upon the historian's style Than on the name a porson leaves behind. BYRON. They never fall who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore; Their...They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overl,ower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom! BYRON. Modest worth neglected lies,... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...generous soul, but not subdue. Waddimgton. They never fall who die In a great cause ; the block may seek their gore, Their heads may sodden in the sun, their...doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts That overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom. — Byron. — Land of our fathers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...to heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Cal. But if we fail /. Ber. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though yean Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thought! Which... | |
 | 1861 - 584 pages
...—Who is the author of the following lines? — t " They never fail who die In a great cause. The blnck may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the...their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls," &c. JS [Lord Byron : Marino Faliero, Act II. Sc. 2.] WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. (2°* S. xi. 206. 253.)... | |
 | Henry Solly - 1861 - 392 pages
...when her later ones fell in the same noble cause. Truly has it been said — They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore, Their heads may sodden in the sun .... But still their spirit walks abroad .... . . . . What were we If Brutus had not lived 1 He died... | |
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They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark... 
