| Walter Scott - 1817 - 366 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befal us on any given moment— it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble. When. 1 think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some... | |
| Walter Scott - 1817 - 300 страници
...is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befal us on any given moment—it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...like the long train of light that follows the sunken sun—that is all which is worth caring for, which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 408 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment— it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him, like the long train of light that folows the sunken sun — that is all which is worth caring "or, which distinguishes the death of the... | |
| John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...the brave or the ignoble. When I think of death, Mr. * t Lady of tbe Lake, Canto V. St. 7. Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1841 - 384 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him, like the long tram of light that follows the sunken sun — that is all which is worth caring for, which distinguishes... | |
| Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - 1847 - 560 страници
...WARFARE. BY THE AUTHOR OF STORIES OF WATERLOO," " THE BIVOUAC," " THE LIFE OF WELLINGTON," &c. &c. " It is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...the long train of light that follows the sunken sun. * * * When I think of death, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852 - 506 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...the ignoble. When I think of death, Mr. Morton, as * The author is uncertain whether this was ever said of Claverhouse. Rut it was currently reported... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 630 страници
...worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...like the long train of light that follows the sunken sun—that is all which is worth .caring for, which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble.... | |
| George Fleming - 1863 - 608 страници
...ASPIRATIONS. 6i of modern novelists, when he says, deeply imbued with the spirit in which he wrote : ' It is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...the long train of light that follows the sunken sun. . . . When I think of death, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some... | |
| 1867 - 878 страници
...that is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us at any moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him,...of the brave or the ignoble. When I think of death, as a chance of almost hourly occurrence in the course before me, it is in the hope of pressing one... | |
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