 | 1882 - 552 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...Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew." greatest and purest warrior of modern times, the nation must have felt at one with the poet as he laboured... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...country and to mankind, he has left his character and his fame as a priceless and everlasting ptssessiou. "'O iron nerve to true occasion true! O fallen at...that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all tlie winds that blewl' 'His work is done; But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 Seiten
...men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O 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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1881 - 274 Seiten
...men knew, O 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... | |
 | Joseph Hammond - 1881 - 608 Seiten
...dead — an instructive parable of his moral and spiritual decay. We may well cry here — " 0 fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood foursquare to all the winds that blew." But it is much more pertinent to ask what brought that proud fortress to the ground. It would have... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 Seiten
...knew, О voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, Oh fall'n at Phyllis's feet. " О Phyllis," ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 Seiten
...men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 698 Seiten
...fame as a priceless and everlasting possession. "'O iron nerve to true occasion true! O fallen :it length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!' 'His work is done; But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example stand Colossal seen... | |
 | 1881 - 626 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 842 Seiten
...qualities, we may justly apply to him the words which the Laureate of England applied to Wellington : — " O iron nerve, to true occasion true ! O fallen at...strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blewl" NOMINATION OF JOHN SHERMAN. SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, AT CHICAGO,... | |
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Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. 
