| Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge your souls to war ; But since alas, ignoble age must come, Disease...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honor'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give : Think on your... | |
| Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...brave, For lust of fame 1 should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. 390 But since, alas! ignoble age must come, Disease, and...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, 9$ Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said ;... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...to war. 390 ' But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, ' Disease, and death's inexorable dooiii ; ' The life which others pay, let us bestow, ' And give to fame what we to nature owe; ' Brave tho' we fall, and honor'd if we live, S9-; ' Or let us glory gain, or glory give !' He said:... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...estimate of what is really valuable in life, and with hearts proud of suffering for our country. " The life, which others pay, let us bestow; " And give to Fame, wh^t we to Nature owe; '* Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, " Or let us glory gain, or... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In lighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas...us bestow, 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...ckiims no less the fearful than the brare, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fu ids, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas! ignoble...us bestow, 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!" lie said ; his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...the brve, For lust of fame I should not vaiuly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. Hut since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we lire, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!" He said ; his... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1811 - 370 pages
...grave, That 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,...come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life that others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave, though we fall, yet honour'd... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1812 - 572 pages
...estimate of what is really valuable in life, and with hearts proud of suffering for our country. " The life, which others pay, let us bestow; " And give to Fame, what we to Nature owe; " Brave though we fall, arid honour'd if we lire, " Or let us glorji gain, or glory give!" CHAPTER... | |
| Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...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,...us bestow, 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... | |
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