 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 360 pages
...marked Anonymous, that, I suspect, is written by the author himself? — " Fill, fill the clarion, sound the fife, To all the sensual world proclaim, — One...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name ! " How nobly spirited and expressive ! I am just now deep in WodroVs History of the Church ; and in... | |
 | Thomas Morris - 1845 - 256 pages
...to the next chapter. MILITARY SERVICE. 23 CHAPTEE II. " Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fife I To all the sensual world proclaim, — One crowded hour of glorious life Iť worth an age without a name ! " THE first morning after our arrival in Stralsund, we discovered... | |
 | Theology - 1846
...yn eu hangen gwneir un udganiad croch, croew, o'u mawredd a'u doniau — "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all the sensual world proclaim — One crowded hour of glorious lifef la worth an age without a name." Na feddylied neb o'n darllenwyr oddiwrth y sylwadau hyn, ein... | |
 | James Grant - 1847 - 388 pages
...heroism, and to honest emulation ! EDINBURGH, June 1847. THE ROMANCE OF WAR. CHAPTER I. TOULOUSE. " One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name ! " THE long and bloody war of the Peninsula had now been brought to a final close, and the troops... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...; and if it shortened them, let us remember his own immortal words, — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all the sensual world proclaim —...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." For the rest, I presume, it will be allowed that no human character, which we have the opportunity... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1848 - 380 pages
...it shortened them, let us remember his own immortal words, — " Sound, sound the clarion, till t!u- fife, To all the sensual world proclaim — One crowded...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." For the rest, I presume, it will be allowed that no human character, which we have the opportunity... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1913 - 586 pages
...chapter-headings is that which stands over chap, xxxiv. of ' Old Mortality ' : — Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim....glorious life Is worth an age without a name. It is one of the commonplaces of quotation, and is usually given for illustrative purposes with more or less... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852 - 506 pages
...him from extreme violence, if not from actual destruction. CHAPTER XXXIV. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. ANONYMOUS. WHEN the desperate affray hai! ceased, Claverhouse commanded his soldiers to remove the... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...extreme, perilous as it is, described in the firm old ballad — " Blow the trumpets, strike the dram, To all the sensual world proclaim — One crowded...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." With regard to the other contents of this Magazine, we must speak with unqualified praise. They are... | |
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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. 
