| 1835 - 508 pages
...preferred death to captivity and baseness, feeling the inspiration qf the sentiment, that, " They npvcr fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 350 pages
...the sacrifice ascend 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...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pages
...a consciousness that bis abilities were not equal tu his station. RolifTl-on't Hùtory of Scotland. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden io the sun ; their limb* BP strung to city gate«, and castle wall» — But utill their spirit walks... | |
| Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - 1840 - 966 pages
...for ever from her husband's presence. History has recorded hers and her children's fate. CHAPTER X. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...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... | |
| Thomas Sutcliffe - 1841 - 606 pages
...tool of a vagabond stranger,f indebted for his elevation and his bread to the generosity of Chile." 1 They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs Be strung to city pates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad ! !" BYRON. t Garrido, a Spaniard.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...ascend to heaven, And draw down fr«M4lom on her evermore. Col. But if we fail /. Ber. They never (ail soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice repr ¡ l) Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city-gates and castle-walls- —... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. Cal. But if we fail /. Ber. est, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels o city gates and castle wall»— But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...And draw down .freedom on her evermore. Cal. But if we fail /. Ber. They never fail who die SCiSE II. 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 Kliip.se, and others... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pages
...limb — behead him — affix his head to any gibbet — you can not get rid of his work so. Fail! " They never fail who die in a great cause. The block may soak their gore, Their head be strung to city gates or castlewalls, But still their spirit walks abroad." As the mad voluptuary... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...the darkest understanding, and that thunder which awakens the dead. They never fail — who die In n great cause: the block — may soak their gore : Their heads — may sodden In the sun ; their limbs Be s rung to city gates—and castle walls— But »till— their spirit walks abioatl. Tho* years Elapse,... | |
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