 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1903 - 346 pages
...'s the Fort of Folly from the poem you were reading me, Miss Lathrop," he called gleefully:— " ' Let the victors when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find my body by the wall.' I made it look like a factory to purpose. If I 'm not mistaken that tide of progress... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb, Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! now to determine what to do with himself next, may begin to remember that he has a mind, and that... | |
 | Edward Smith Parsons - 1904 - 754 pages
...men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and sank at last. "Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!" This, however, is the call to duty which Stoicism gives, the only call it can give. But in one of those... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...men fared thus before thee : Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! 1867. BACCHANALIA ; OB, THE NEW AGE THE evening conies, the fields are still. The tinkle of the thirsty... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - 332 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! But the note of battle, even for what he holds dearest and most sacred, is not a familiar note in... | |
 | Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Edward Stuart Talbot (bp. of Rochester) - 1904 - 370 pages
...fared thus before thee ! Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...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... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 470 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb, Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! now to determine what to do with himself next, may begin to remember that he has a mind, and that... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - 350 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! But the note of battle, even for what he holds dearest and most sacred, is not a familiar note in... | |
 | Edgar Rowan - 1905 - 552 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! " MATTHEW ARNOLD. IN supporting his contention that the system of the Church of Rome is superior... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 298 pages
...men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and sank at last. I2 Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall! l6 i867. Matthew Arnold. AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, W. SHAKESPEARE WHAT needs my Shakespeare... | |
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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... 
