 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 660 pages
...anger of the gods by giving his life freely, so that in after days he may be one of those whose "... names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future ..." And Menaceus, listening, steals away. The seer has not pleaded hi vain In two lines the poet tells... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...these noble lines : — "My son, No sound is breathed so potent to coerce, And to conciliate, аз their names who dare For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to dio. Their names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in tlio future ; few, but more than... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1886 - 202 pages
...WATERBURY TO FIGHT IN THE 1 WAR FOR THE UNION. No sound is breathed so potent to cofrcet And to eonciliaftj as their names who dare For that sweet motherland...memorial columns^ are a song Heard in the future. Everywhere -, they meet And kindle generous purpose^ and the strength To mould it into action pitre... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 668 pages
...anger of the gods by giving his life freely, so that in after days he may be one of those whose "... names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future ..." And Menaceus, listening, steals away. The seer has not pleaded in vain In two lines the poet tells... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 662 pages
...anger of the gods by giving his life freely, so that in after days he may be one of those whose "... names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future ..." And Menaceus, listening, steals away. The seer has not pleaded in vain In two lines the poet tells... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1887 - 624 pages
...the courage, devotion, and patriotism for which British seamen have ever been distinguished. My son, No sound is breathed so potent to coerce, And to conciliate,...them birth, Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names Given on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future ; few, but more than wall And rampart, their... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - 1887 - 324 pages
...for I loathe The seed of Cadmus — yet if one of these By his own hand — if one of these " My son, No sound is breathed so potent to coerce, And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names, Graven on memorial columns,... | |
 | Samuel Cox - 1887 - 518 pages
...sound " so potent to coerce, and to conciliate," as the names of those who have done or died nobly ? Their names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future. . . . Their examples reach a hand Far thro1 all years, and everywhere they meet And kindle generous... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...for I loathe The seed of Cadmus — yet if one of these By his own hand — if one of these ' My son, No sound is breathed so potent to coerce, And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names, Graven on memorial columns,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 pages
...virtue lies The saving of our Thebes : See the speech addressed to Creon in the Phccn'.ssce, 930-960. Their names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song...in the future ; few, but more than wall And rampart recalls, but how feeble the echo, the noble fragment of Simonides, all that remains of his eulogy on... | |
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For that sweet mother land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future; few, but more than wall And rampart, their examples reach a hand Far thro... 
