...his brother-officers Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard; and concluded by saying, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec.' By the single path which led upwards, and which was in some places so narrow as not to admit of two...

...Measured by Results. 17. High Spirits. To Professor HENRY REED, Philadelphia. 1. " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." * This is indeed a most interesting anecdote. Query, is it characteristic of military men to be thus...

...Wai-burton's Conquest ol Canada, chap. 26. t Masscy's George the Third, I., 37-38. 1759 "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem, than take Quebec."* But while the ardent General thus gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was constantly...

...moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' " Hales, in his Introduction to the poem, remarks : " The Elegy is perhaps the most widely known poem...

...boat with him Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Country Church-yard, adding at the end, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Wolfe himself was one of the first to leap ashore. The precipitous path was climbed ; an outpost of...

...repeating in a low tone Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard,5' adding as he finished, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." It was scarcely daybreak when the English army occupied the heights of Abraham. A skirmish had been...

...close over life's last utterance in the placid content of a victor's death,) he added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec !" This pleasing and pathetic incident was preserved in the memory of the late Professor Robison of...

...Elegy in a Country Churchyard;"6 and as he concluded the beautiful verses, he said, " Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ! " But while Wolfe thus in the poet's words gave vent to the intensity of his feelings, his eye was...

...Gray's ' Elegy ' in a low voice to the officers in his boat, and said at the close — ' Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' The first of these anecdotes is a reminiscence of the late Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, who had it...

...wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave." " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec to-morrow," said he. But would the poem ever have been written if the Army of God had not set up its banners ?...