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... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 81by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825Full view - About this book
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. CAL. " But if we fail— ? I. EER. " They never fail who die In a great cause : the block...castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad " — a passage which, after his wont, he spoils by platitudes about the precisian Brutus, who certainly... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom en her evermore. CAL. But if we fail— ? I. BER. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may soddcu in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls, But still their spirit walks... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1164 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 - 276 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 - 460 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... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1889 - 600 pages
...shall take up the voice. And so all together, in eternal chorus, shall proclaim : — " They never faU who die In a great cause. The block may soak their...walls, 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... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1890 - 274 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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