 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...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...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 - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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...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." IVarburton. This passage... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 298 pages
...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 inspire With equal... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge my soul to war. But since, alas! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's...nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give !" JVhy on these shores? Sic. These lines are rendered thus... | |
 | Arts - 1828 - 532 pages
...the Indians : Could the declining of this fate, O friend ! Our life to immortality extend : — But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease and death's...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 Turks ; Oguz... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...urge thy soul to war : — 39 But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inciorable , live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said ; his words the listening chief inspire With equal... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...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 - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...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 initiate himse live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said : his words the listening chief inspire With equal... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 548 pages
...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, and...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... | |
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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... 
