Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable... Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ... - Página 311805 - 358 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, and honour 'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." Warburtm. This passage... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 páginas
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." Warburton. This passage... | |
| Homer - 1825 - 298 páginas
...ignohle age must come, Disease, and death's inexorahle doom ; The life which others pay, let us hestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said : his words the listening chief... | |
| 1828 - 532 páginas
...to the Indians : Could the declining of this fate, O friend ! Our life to immortality extend : — But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease and...what we to nature owe ; Brave, though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. ,Nor us it impossible that the Trojans were... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...urge thy soul to war : — 39 But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inciorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us bestow, And...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said ; his words the listening chief... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 páginas
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war : But since, alas ! ignoble age must come,...what we to nature owe ! Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. POPE'S Homer. 25.— ALEXANDER THE GREAT.... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...ifnce, alaa! ignoble age moat come, Disea&e, and death's inexorable doom ; The life, which other§ pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and hononr'd if we live, Or let ui glory gain, or glory give. — Homer's Sarpedon. acts. 1'he memorable... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...ignohle age must come, Disease, and death's inexorahle doom ; The life which others pay, let us hestow, d effect of each performance. It seems natural for a young poet to honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said : his words the listening chief... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 548 páginas
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame, I should not vainly dare In fighting field?, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. " n 4, is gone, yesterday, to Woburn, with this account ; having been first referred, for the truth... | |
| Hatchway (lieut, R.N., pseud.) - 1838 - 922 páginas
...found themselve at about six p. M., hanging on to their old moorings in Greenwich tier. CHAPTER XV. The life which others pay let us bestow, And give...what we to nature owe : Brave though we fall, and honoured if we lire, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. POPE'S HOMER'S Iliad. PETERS continued his... | |
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