 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...where the Red-cross banners wave on high Signals of honoured death or victory. James Duff. CHAP. XXXIV. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Anonymous. FROM THE BLACK DWARF. MOTTOES. CHAP. V. THE bleakest rock upon the loneliest heath Feels,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...lord ma}' grip my vassal lands, For there again maun I never be ! Old BaUad. (8.) — CHAP. XXXIV. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Anonymous. 1816. THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS; OK, THE QUEST OF SUIVTAUN SOLIMAUS. And twinkled with... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - 1857 - 436 pages
...certainly have sympathised with the poet, when he says, in the very spirit of their own immortal bards, " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To all the...world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life v Is worth an age without a name."t Agreeably to the maxim of the eminent French philosopher — "... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 pages
...his word. This is to be a gentleman. This is a race worth running — a reputation worth dying for. Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fife ! To all...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name ! And this is the moral to be drawn frorfl all we have said ; that Genius requires to be combined with... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1858 - 578 pages
...al-kynno" .also signifies "W alii, (Camliri) Welshmen. Page 286, 2d line after "campaign," insert — "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Page 293, line 8, after "Century," insert a *, and add as a note, "TiiE POPKS OF THE XV'TH CENTURY... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
...many a sullied page in England's history — such lives are golden waymarks in the march of ages — "'Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all...hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name !' Ah, Florence, we live an age, ages too late ! ' Our bright eyes rain no influence' on the carpet-knights... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim, One glorious hour of crowded life Is worth an age without a name. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1859 - 340 pages
...how easily I could become their leader. I should ever remember those noble lines of the poet : — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name ! " As Pearl recited these lines with the fervour of a prophetess, or as one inspired, it would have... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1859 - 390 pages
...time to save him from extreme violence, if not from actual destruction. CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. ANONYMOUS. WHEN the desperate affray had ceased, Claverhouse commanded his soldiers to remove the dead... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...are the best commentary upon his own lines — " Tlicn, sound the trumpet, fill tbe fife. And to tlie sensual world proclaim — One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.1' Well may we be proud. Sir, that a man great in so many walks — the great minstrel, and the... | |
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 
