| William Cushing - 1886 - 622 páginas
...originally published on the morning of the day on whlcn he wan taken prisoner. The last stanza was:— " And now I've closed my epic strain; I tremble as I show It. Lest this siime warrior-driver, Wayne, Should ever catch the Pott." Dreamer, A. Henry Theodore Tuckerman. Leaves... | |
| Washington Irving - 1887 - 642 páginas
...stockings and brown breeches." The cantos were published at different times in Rivington's Gazette. It so happened that the last canto appeared on the...warrio'drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet" CHAPTER X. DIMBVIBW OF WASHINGTON WITH THE FRENCH OFFICERS AT HARTFORD. — PLAIC OF ATTACK DISCONCERTED. —... | |
| 1892 - 828 páginas
...execution, in a poetical effusion, called the "Cow Chase,'' thfe last couplet of which was as follows : •'And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet." Andre, while under arrest and about to be condemned,... | |
| Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati - 1893 - 368 páginas
...stanza, which, if not pathetic, seems certainly to have been prophetic of the sad fate of the author: "And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as...warrio-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." Additional interest is lent to the poem, from the fact that the above stanza was printed on the very... | |
| Samuel Eben Barney - 1893 - 84 páginas
...descending steers shall know. And tauntingly deride, And call to mind in ev'ry low, The tanning of his hide. And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." You observe that a wholesome respect for Wayne's... | |
| Richard Jones - 1894 - 176 páginas
...intended to ridicule Gen. Wayne for his failure in an attempt to collect cattle for the army, is this : 'And now I've closed my epic strain; I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet !' " Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, JB Lippincott... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 508 páginas
...expense of " Mad " Anthony Wayne. The last stanza of this poem seems to have been almost prophetic : " And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." In Boston, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., gained great... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 496 páginas
...expense of " Mad" Anthony Wayne. The last stanza of this poem seems to have been almost prophetic: " And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." In Boston, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., gained great... | |
| Eugene Field - 1896 - 280 páginas
...defeat of Generals Wayne, Irving, and Proctor. The last stanza ran in this wise: i39 And now I 've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet. Rice noticed that the pamphlet bore the imprint... | |
| Eugene Field - 1896 - 284 páginas
...defeat of Generals Wayne, Irving, and Proctor. The last stanza ran in this wise: > 39 And now I 've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet. Rice noticed that the pamphlet bore the imprint... | |
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