 | Beverley Tucker - 1839 - 32 страници
...annals might not furnish a parallel? How poor in comparison the boast of England's poetic moralist, " That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own." Was this an unwholesome and distempered pride ? Ask your own hearts ! Ask the history of Virginia,... | |
 | Newton Bosworth - 1839 - 354 страници
...looking back to the Ministry which projected and the General who achieved it, will reflect with delight " That CHATHAM'S language was his mother tongue, And WOLFE'S great name compatriot with his own." In the following spring the French army which had been collected in the neighbourhood of Montreal,... | |
 | Newton Bosworth - 1846 - 388 страници
...looking back to the Ministry which projected and the General who achieved it, will reflect with delight ' That CHATHAM'S language was his mother tongue, And WOLFE'S great name compatriot with hia own." In the following spring the French army which had been collected in the neighbourhood of... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 страници
...and hnast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were horn her children, praise enough To fill th' ambition of a private man, That...mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with Iiia own. Commoner had not yet been created a peer, to the injury of his passing popularity, and perhaps... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 страници
...'!'u•, ii. 29. BOOK n.] THE TASK. 189 That we were born her children ; praise enough 235 To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language...Wolfe's* great name compatriot with his own. Farewell those honours, and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter. They have fallen 240 Each in his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 страници
...and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill th' ambition of a private man, That...Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. Farewell those honours, and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter ! They have fallen Each in his field... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 страници
...every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children ; praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language...Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. Farewell those honours, and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter. They have fallen Each in his field... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 страници
...enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To ffll squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play; He sees...bird, Ascends the neighbouring beech; there whisks hu those honours, and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter ! They have fallen And force them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 страници
...every cliine, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill ih: l&e s e u%viWjW?p c t p u uJl s s l l l l\p S lRu Y.S p#v$vCv&v uwm l u p u p[v*r+r R l CAv Y Y 9 u 9 ozo r4p s lib own Farewell those honours, and farewell with them The iiope of such hereafter ! They have fallen... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 страници
...expression. 16. Give a brief analysis of Bacon's Essay" On Studies." FOUBTH CLASS. COWPER: POEMS. 1. . Praise enough To fill th' ambition of a private man That...tongue And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. Give very shortly, the particulars of the deaths of these great men respectively. 2. The cattle mourn... | |
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To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. 
