 Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With...  The Analectic Magazine - Página 3831815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 páginas
...ebbing from him, upon his elbow on the green turf where he had fallen, as his countrymen always fall, with his back to the field and his feet to the foe. he said: "Maedonald. I'm not dead, but I'm watching how my children fight." My dear friends, the great... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 páginas
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foel And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.... | |
 | 1885 - 568 páginas
...controversionalists and convicted consciences, this gallant warrior fell with all his harness on, " his back to the field and his feet to the foe," and, writing " Vici " on his shield, he fell asleep. III. WHAT STEPHEN SAID BEFORE HE PELL ASLEEP. 1. He... | |
 | 1886 - 562 páginas
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet...the foe, And, leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven from the death -bed of fame. THOMAS CAMPBELL. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE.... | |
 | John Lord Parker - 1887 - 678 páginas
...and responsibilities of the soldier's life ; that each of you will " As victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet...the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame." Col. Wilson, I will not disguise from you that... | |
 | Gilbert Samuel Macquoid - 1888 - 574 páginas
...flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet...the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame. CLXX. BATTLE SONG. THERE is mist on the mountain,... | |
 | Stephen Allen - 1888 - 168 páginas
...evening at a camp-meeting, and died the next day. falling with his harness on, like a true knight, — " With his back to the field and his feet to the foe." And so would he have wished it ; and he was carried from the camp-ground to his honored grave. Doubtless... | |
 | 1888 - 920 páginas
...like a brave Norseman, boldly faced his pursuers, and, like many a hero before and after him, fell with his back to the field and his feet to the foe. He was interred where he fell. An obelisk, 14 feet high, marks the spot, commemorates the event, alike... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1888 - 398 páginas
...like a brave Norseman, boldly faced his pursuers, and, like many a hero before and after him, fell with his back to the field and his feet to the foe. He was interred where he fell. An obelisk, 14 feet high, marks the spot, commemorates the event, alike... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1888 - 326 páginas
...She gave the promise, which she meant to keep, and left the room. CHAPTER XII. A DIRECTOR AT BAY. ' With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe.' CAMPBELL. [ORD JOHN CARDONALD lived to curse the day upon which he had become the director of a joint-stock... | |
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