 | George M'Cutchan - 1874 - 200 Seiten
...he had achieved when one more attack of wasting disease overpowered its victim. There has " Fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew." The nation which waited with loud acclaim to hail his return, may now, with armed escort and high pageant,... | |
 | 1876 - 564 Seiten
...simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length...Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 Seiten
...simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length...Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. T. All is over and done : Render... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length...strength Which stood four-square to all the winds thal blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 Seiten
...men knew, 0 voice from which their omens all men drew, 0 iron nerve to true occasion true, 0 fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | United States. 43d Cong., 2d sess., 1874-1875 - 1875 - 84 Seiten
...and great men : O good gray head which all men knew ; O steady nerve to all occasions true ; O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. The SPEAKER. By the order of the House, the House now takes a recess until half past seven o'clock.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 Seiten
...knew, О voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to tine occasion true. O füllen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self -sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | 1881 - 624 Seiten
...we have often felt inclined to apply to him Tennyson's description of the Duke of Wellington as the tower of strength, Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. Probably its singular power lay in the remarkable union in it of the intellectual, the practical, the... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 Seiten
...simplicity sublime. 6. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length...Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er : The great world- victor's... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 Seiten
...in the domain of the august profession which he so much loved, he was called away from these scenes. "O fallen at length, that tower of strength, Which stood four-square to all the winds that blow!" The Nestor of our bar is dead— " Clarum et venerablle nomenl" and, now that, he is gone, we... | |
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Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. 
