Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
British writer
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809) was a British officer and poet.
Quotes
edit- Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crouded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.- "Verses written during the War 1756-1763",
The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer (Edinburgh, 12 October 1791) - Cf. John Scott of Amwell and Sir Walter Scott
- "Verses written during the War 1756-1763",
Allusions
edit- "You're a good chap, Barker," said the magistrate. "No, I won't do it again. Who's the fellow who talks of 'one crowded hour of glorious life'? By George! it's too fascinating. I had the time of my life! Talk of fox-hunting! No, I'll never touch it again, for it might get a grip of me."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "One Crowded Hour", The Strand Magazine (August 1911)