 | 1894 - 284 pages
...despair and failure. How different is the following, from " The Last Word " : — 1 Charge once more then and be dumb. Let the victors, when they come,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall." Jut it is in the " Sonnet Sermons," as they might be appropriately called, that we have Arnold speaking... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall. A WISH. T ASK not that my bed of death From bands of greedy heirs be free; For these besiege the latest... | |
 | 1877 - 688 pages
...before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed; Hotly charged— and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors when they come,...the forts of Folly fall. Find thy body by the wall.' And what shall we say of Erasmus in conclusion ? Shall we point out that, whether he joined the Lutherans... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...before thee! Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors, when they come,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall! A NAMELESS EPITAPH. A SK not my name, O friend! That Being only, which hath known each man From the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged, — and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall. EGBERT LORD LYTTON. THE ARTIST. 0 ARTIST, range not over- wide: Lest what thou seek be haply hid In... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...thee ! Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and broke at last. ' Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors, when they come,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.' In Clough's poem the individual, far from being the centre, is depicted as the only hindrance to the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged,— and broke at last. Charge once more, then, aml be dumb ! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall. EGBERT LORD LYTTON. THE ARTIST. O ARTIST, range not over-wide: Lest what thou seek be haply hid In... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 pages
...their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumbl Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! A NAMELESS EPITAPH. ASK not my name, O friend! That Being only, which hath known each man From the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumbl Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall I A NAMELESS EPITAPH. ASK not my name, O friend! That Being only, which hath known each man From the... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pages
...thee ; Fired their ringing shot, and passed, Hotly charged, — and sank at last. " Charge once more, then, and be dumb '. Let the victors when they come, When the forte of foil; fall, Find thy bod; hv the wall ! " The Pis-Aller and the lyric of forlorn hope, from... | |
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Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall! 
