 Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.  Jack - Page xxivby Alphonse Daudet - 1900 - 409 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 684 pages
...with death ! " This Can is attributed to Callimachus. any one supply me with the reference ? 2. '' Did we think victory great ? So it is. But now it seems to me, when it cannot be helped, that deteat is great, and that death and dismay are great. Walt Whitman expresses the same idea (' Song... | |
 | 1894 - 868 pages
...THE DINTED SHIELD. cries the American poet in one of his fine outbursts of heartening song : — " Did we think victory great '; So it is; — But now...helped, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay arc great." " Failure after long perseverance," says George Eliot, " is much grander than never to... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...carefully for it even in being foiled, In defeat, poverty, imprisonment — for they too are great. Did we think victory great ? So it is — But now...defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great. DRUM-TAPS. MANHATTAN ARMING. i. THIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretched tympanum,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...poverty, misconception, imprisonment — for they too are great. Revolt ! and the bullet for tyrants ! Did we think victory great ? So it is — But now...defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great. FRANCE, THE I8TH YEAR OF THESE STATES.1 I. A great year and place ; A harsh, discordant, natal scream... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...poverty, misconception, imprisonment — for they too are great. Revolt ! and the bullet for tyrants ! Did we think victory great? So it is — But now it...defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great. FRANCE, THE l8TH YEAR OF THESE STATES.1 1. A great year and place ; A harsh, discordant, natal scream... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...it even in being foil'd, In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment — for they too are great. Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great. UNNAMED LANDS. NATIONS ten thousand... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 230 pages
...Of 3RNIA A NOVEL BY , LUCAS MALET Author of ' Col. Enderbfs Wife,' 'A Counsel of Perfection,' etc. ' Did we think victory great ? ' So it is. — But now...defeat is great, 'And that death and dismay are great.' VOLUME III. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO. PATERNOSTER SQJARE 1891 HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINIY, LD., PRINTERS,... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 248 pages
...WAGES OF SIN A NOVEL BY LUCAS MALET Author of ' Col. Enderby's Wife,' 'A Counsel of Perfection? etc. ' Did we think victory great ? ' So it is. — But now...defeat is great, 'And that death and dismay are great.' VOLUME I SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO. PATERNOSTER SQUARE HAZELI-, VVATSO.V, AND VIKF.Y LD., PRINTERS LONDON... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 466 pages
...Academy. A NOVEL BY LUCAS MALET Avtlur of ' Cot Endcrby's Wife,'/ A Counsel of Perfection,' etc. ' Did we think victory great ? So it is.— But now...that defeat is great, 'And that death and dismay are gse.it.' STEREOTYPED mT^rFm EDITION. fonboit: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1891 \l.... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 244 pages
...WAGES OF lN NOVEL BY LUCAS MALET Author of ' Col. Enderbfs Wife,'' 'A Counsel of Perfection,'1 etc. ' Did we think victory great ? ' So it is. — But now...seems to me, when it cannot be helped, that defeat is greaf, 'And that death and dismay are great.' VOLUME II. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO. PATERNOSTER SQUARE... | |
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