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" Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe. "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 17
edited by - 1779
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...courage appears in this way of fervice, each man being ia a miuuci fingled out to the proof of it. £»'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the Valiant dye. So much 'tis fafer thro' the camp to go, And rob a fubjerft, then defpoil a foe. 3°J Scourge...
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Extracts from mr. Pope's translation corresponding with The beauties of ...

Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...nobly face the horrid front of war ? 'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, " ""'.; "i': Thine to look on, .and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis fafer thro' the camp to go, And rob a fubjeS, than def;ioij a foe, . . . . Scourge of thy people, violent...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 12

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...a deer ! When wert thou known in ambulh'd fights to d.ir*f Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine...to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis fait r through the camp to go, And rob a fubject, than defpoil a foe. Scourge of thy people, violent...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...the chance of fighting fields to tr^, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tisfafer through the camp to go, And rob a fubjecl, than defpoil a foe. Scourge of thy people, violent and bafe ! Sent in Jeve's anger on a flavilh race, Who, loft to fenfe of generous freedom palt, . Are tara'd...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey ...

1792 - 918 pages
...a deer ! When wert thou known in ambufli'd fights to dare, Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the vnfiant die. So much 'tis fafer through the camp to go, And rob a fubject, than tlrlpoil a foe. Scourge...
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The whole poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq., including his translations ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...a deer! When wert thou known inambufh'd rights to dare, Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 •Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look en, and bid the valiant die, So much 'tis fafer through the camp to go, And rob a fub/ecl, than defpoila...
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The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations ...

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...deer ! When wert thou known in ambufh'd fights to dare Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 300 •Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try,...fafer through the camp to go, And rob a fubjecl. than defpoila foe. Scourge of thy people, violent and hafe ! 305 Sent by Jove's anjcr on a fl.iviih nice,...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...deer! When wert thou known in arabush'd fights to dare, Or nobly face the horrid front of war? 3OO Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine...to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a sub1ect, than despoil a foe. Scourge of thy people, violent...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 41

John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...! ' When wert thou known in ambush'd lights to dnre, ' Or nobly face the horrid front of war? 300 ' 'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, ' Thine to look on, and hid the valiant die. ' So much 'tis safer thro' the camp to go, ' And rob a subject, than despoil a...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...heart a deer ! When wert thou known in ambush'd fights to dare, Or nobly face the horrid front of war ? 'Tis ours, the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine...to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe. Scourge of thy people, violent...
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