“Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low,
With his back to the field and his feet to the foe,
And leaving in battle no blot on his name,
Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.”
Lochiel's Warning (1802)
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British writer 1777–1844Related quotes

“Let Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore,
For both their worths shall equal him no more.”
Amyras, Part 2, Act V, scene iii, lines 252–253
Tamburlaine (c. 1588)

“His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.”
Monumenta fatiscunt:<br/>mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
Monumenta fatiscunt:
mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
"Epitaphia" 31: De Nomine Cuiusdam Lucii Sculpto in Marmore, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 159.

The Journey of Tears, by Mullah Bashir Hassanali Rahim p.39

As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 371

“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)

History of the Thirty YEars War 178
The Thirty Years War

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 373.