| 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... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 324 pages
...They are safe. Failure is impossible to them, for " They never fail who die In a great cause. . . . But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years...They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which o'erpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom." It seems to me that all those men... | |
| William Chalmers Covert - 1920 - 208 pages
...The world felt as it looked back upon the eras of struggle and generations of courageous martyrs that "They never fail who die In a great cause. The block...others and conduct The world at last to freedom." GEORGE GORDON BYRON. The church as one of the conserving forces of the world has met gravest difficulties... | |
| John Morley - 1921 - 390 pages
...sacrifice ascend to heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Calendaro. But if we fail /. Bertucdo. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...others, and conduct The world at last to freedom. What were we If Brutus had not lived ? He died in giving Rome liberty, but left a deathless lesson... | |
| John Morley - 1921 - 392 pages
...sacrifice ascend to heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Calendaro. But if we fail /. Bertuccio. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...to city gates and castle walls — But still their spint walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep... | |
| Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...walls; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a gloom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which...and conduct The world at last to freedom." BYRON. (H) "One of the illusions is, that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on... | |
| John Morley - 1923 - 450 pages
...sacrifice ascend to heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Oalendaro. But if we fail /. Bertuccio. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...and others share as dark a doom, They but augment tho deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.... | |
| Norman Wentworth De Witt - 1923 - 232 pages
...Stuarts to a throne but the prose and verse of Sir Walter Scott was a glorious substitute for victory. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. It was so with the Italic sentiment of the allies that swept over Italy in the youth of the poet's... | |
| Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 350 pages
...Greeks, and by all those who knew of his sacrifice in Freedom's cause. His own words are recalled : They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom. SHAKESPEARE AND BYRON BY PROFESSOR FRANK GRANGER, D.Litt., MA 1VTILTON perceived clearly one of the... | |
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