 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...forefathers, was ' filled with devils and evil men,' has become pathetic in decay : — ' Fallen at length Is that tower of strength Which stood foursquare to all the winds that blew. The mighty keep of the house of Ferrers has been so utterly destroyed that only since this book was... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1829 - 82 pages
...which all men knew, 0 voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er : The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 702 pages
...find the line» referred to in Tennyson's Ode on the Dmihofllie Date of Wellington: — 0 fol Гм at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! " HENRY R. Рьомкв (Southport). — Have you consulted jowndes, Watt, or any of the bibliographical... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1852 - 32 pages
...all men knew, О voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, 0 fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! * Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er : The great World-victor's... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true ; O fall'n at length that tower of strength, Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore ; The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er: The greatest world-victor's... | |
 | John Cumming - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1853 - 212 pages
...knew ! 0 voice from which their omens all men drew ! 0 iron nerve to true occasion true ! Oh ! fallen at length that tower of strength, Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. Such was he whom we deplore ; The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er, The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...which all men knew, 0 voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew! Such was lie whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...which all men knew, 0 voice from which their omens all men drew, 0 iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew !" In the following passage, apt use is made of the fact that the bones of Nelson and Wellington find... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...which all men knew, 0 voice from which their omens all men drew, 0 iron nerve to true occasion true, 0 fall'n at length that tower of strength / Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! 9 130 ODE ON THE DEATH OF Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The... | |
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Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. 
