| Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 242 sider
...is a glorification of rebellion, which is merely made explicit in the following fine passage :— " Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...lost or gain'd, How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success, Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1904 - 788 sider
...Rebellion! foal dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft ha* stain'd The holiest cause that tougne or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that with'ring name Whom but a day's, an hour's Had wafted to etorual fame! fettige... | |
| 1904 - 746 sider
...from their own country ; while, on the other hand, the Boers died upon their own soil, fighting in " the holiest cause that tongue or sword of mortal ever lost or gained," the defence of their native land, of their hearths and homes, their wives and children, their... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1905 - 230 sider
...glorification of rebellion, which is merely made explicit in the following fine passage: — "Rebellion I foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so...lost or gain'd, How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success, Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 sider
...are as follows : — " Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit born to bless Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 582 sider
...in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence." POPE. Essay on Man, Ef. IV. lilt* 79. " Rebellion I foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to Eternal fame... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 sider
...— meaning the high classes. 4170 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xl. St. 84. Rebellion ! foul dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The...ever lost or gain'd ! How many a spirit born to bless Hath sunk beneath that withering name) Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 sider
...— meaning the high classes. 4170 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xi. St. 84. Rebellion ! foul dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The...Of mortal ever lost or gain'd ! How many a spirit horn to bless Hath sunk beneath that withering name^ Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted... | |
| 1911 - 302 sider
...desolate oar shrines of flame. And swear, before God-s burning eye. To break our country's chains or die! "Rebellion! foul, dishonouring word. Whose wrongful...has stain-d The holiest cause that tongue or sword Ol mortal ever lost or gain-d. How many a spirit, born to bless. Hath sunk beneath that withering name.... | |
| James Lewis - 1913 - 324 sider
...patriot and the traitor. "Rebellion! foul, dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's,... | |
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