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The Works of Lord Byron - Page 81
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825
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Byron

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...
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Byron

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...
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The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works of Lord Byron: With a Comprehensive ...

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...
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Oliver Cromwell: His Life, Times, Battlefields, and Contemporaries

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...
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The Life of Oliver Cromwell: With Sketches of His Times, Battle Fields, and ...

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...
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The New Franklin Fifth Reader: With a New Elocutionary Treatise, Essentials ...

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...
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Oliver Cromwell: His Life, Times, Battlefields, and Contemporaries

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...
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The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character. Second Series

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...
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Sermons and Addresses

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...
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Life of Lord Byron

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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