 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 oldal
...sports to gaze upon him, and old men from the chimney corner, to look upon Nelson ere they died. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...done, nor ought he to be lamented who died so full of honors and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful... | |
 | 1911 - 620 oldal
...sports to gaze upon him, and "old men from their chimney-corner" to look upon Nelson ere they died. He cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...work was done ; nor ought he to be lamented who died BO full of honors, and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr;... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 oldal
...Southey's Life of Nelson shows an alternation of compound and suspensive arcs : The most triumAphant death | is that of the martyr ; the most awful | that of the martyred patriot ; the mostAsplendid | that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horse of fire... | |
 | Emil Hausknecht - 1910 - 318 oldal
...but 47 years of age when his life was cut off, but Robert Southey , his biographer , justly remarks : "He cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...died so full of honours and at the height of human His body was taken to England and laid to rest — not in Westminster Abbey, where most of England's... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 oldal
...body, that, in the course of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...done; nor ought he to be lamented, who died so full of honors, and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 oldal
...The syntactical connections or the demands of emphasis, however, may make it obligatory or desirable. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful is that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory. SOUTHEY,... | |
 | Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis, K. I. Bemis - 1918 - 200 oldal
...body, that, in the course of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done; nor ought he be lamented, who died so full of honors, and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 oldal
...body, that, in the course of nature, he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet cia did, in respect of their popularity, and the state...in respect of tin- greatness of their monarchy ; th honors, and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 256 oldal
...body, that in the course of nature he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of a martyr; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid, that of the hero in the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 oldal
...body, that in the course of nature he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose...of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of a martyr ; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid, that of the hero in the... | |
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The most triumphant death is that of a martyr; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid, that of the hero in the hour of victory... 
