 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...— meaning the high classes. 4170 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xl. St. 84. Rebellion ! foul dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The...cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gaiu'd ! How many a spirit born to bless Hath sunk beneath that withering name. Whom but a day's, an... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1883 - 624 pages
...wrongful blight so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit bom to bless Hath sunk beneath that withering name, LALLA ROOKH. Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame ! As exhalations, when... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...thee from the shore. " Rebellion! foul dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft hath stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained; How many a spirit, bom to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name Whom but a day, or hour's... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...conquerors; and the poet, with a distinct reference to the Irish rebellion of 17g8, passionately exclaims: p ] gained. How many a spirit, born to bless, Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an... | |
 | Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - Denmark - 1885 - 424 pages
...Fire-Worshippers, de schoone plaats vertaalde?: sRebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, »Whose wrougful blight so oft has stain'd »The holiest cause that tongue or sword »0f mortal ever lost or gain'd. »How mauy a spirit, born to bless, »Hath suuk beneath that withering... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1887 - 276 pages
...REBELLION. — Moore. Rebellion ! foul dishonouring word. Whose wrongful blight so. oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name,— Whom but a day's,... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 548 pages
...on the Northern side. " Rebellion, foul dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft hath stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit born to bless Hath sunk beneath thy withering name, Whom but a day's, an... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1888 - 478 pages
...second, it has left them to that " foul dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blights so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained." But whether "Rebellion" or "Revolution," so it has happened that twice this section of the... | |
 | Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - 1890 - 528 pages
...hebben getwijfeld, toen hij later uit Thomas Moore's Fire-Worshippers de schoone plaats vertaalde?: „Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, „Whose wrongful...has stain'd ..The holiest cause that tongue or sword ,.0f mortal ever lost or gain'd. „How many a spirit, born to bless, „Hath sunk beneath that withering... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - United States - 1891 - 494 pages
...any cause in which Jefferson Davis is a leader. There is contamination in his touch. If secession was the ' holiest cause that tongue or sword of mortal ever lost or gained,' he would ruin it ! He will bear a great amount of watching. My friends in Congress learned... | |
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Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success... 
