| Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1893 - 882 pages
...had the true sentiment of patriotism and devotion to country when he wrote of the patriot martyrs: "They never fail who die In a great cause; the block...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 deed... | |
| Buffalo Historical Society - 1882 - 82 pages
...gratitude of a great nation. It will tell of heroic deeds and great sacrifices. It will tell that " They never fail who die In a great cause. The block...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... | |
| 1883 - 778 pages
...the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. CAL. " But if we fail— ? I. BER. " They never fail who die In a great cause :...castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad " — a passage which, after his wont, he spoils by platitudes about the precisian Brutus, who certainly... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...So that the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. Col. But if we fail ulian, one of the Gothic monarch's principal lieutenants, who, when the crime was perpetrated, 7. Ber. They never fail who die Be strung to city gates and castle walls— But still their spirit... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 310 pages
...affix his head to any gibbet — you cannot get rid of his work so. He failed, says Mr. Forster ! " They never fail who die in a great cause. The block may soak their gore, Their head be strung to city gates or castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad !" As the mad voluptuary... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 272 pages
...affix his head to any gibbet — you can not get rid of his work so. He failed, says Mr. Forster ! " They never fail who die in a great cause. The block may soak their gore, Their head be strung to city gates or castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad ! " As the mad voluptuary... | |
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 pages
...Antithetical Ideas. 13. Philip. But if we fail' — Israel. They NEVER "* , /b$ who die In a GEEAT CATJSE V ! The block may soak their gore" ; Their heads may sodden...walls', — But still their spirit^ walks abroad^. Byron, Marino Faliero, \ 4. Attention ^ it is~ (though other qualities belong to this transcendent... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1884 - 462 pages
...him—affix his head to any gibbet—you cannot get rid of his work so. He failed, says Mr. Forster! ** They never fail who die in a great cause. The block may soak their gore, Their head be strung to city gates or castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad ! " As the mad voluptuary... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1886 - 320 pages
...throne is as nothing — indeed, no throne — compared to the scaffold whereon a great man perishes. " They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...city gates and castle walls, But still their spirit wa'ks abroad." And, again, the same poet, Byron, asks, " What were we if Brutus had not lived ? He... | |
| Roden Noel - 1890 - 284 pages
...government, would be a motive very familiar to Byron's own conflicting nature. These are good lines : — "They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block...castle walls : But still their spirit walks abroad." " Sardanapalus," however, seems to me one of out really excellent plays. The hero, like Don Juan, is... | |
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