 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 doom, The life, which others pay, let us...  Fitzosborne's Letters: On Several Subjects - Page 164by William Melmoth - 1815 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1721 - 244 pages
...The life which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; 3p5" Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He faid; his words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warrior's fire; The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...The life which others pay, let us beftovv, ' 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. To petch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it Cure be fuch a fin to paint. But fmce, alas... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho we fall, and honor' d ifwe live> Or let us glory gain, or glory give. POPE. IF any thing cart be juftly obje<5ted to this tranllationi it is, perhaps, that in one or two places it is too diffufed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
..." The life which others pay, let us beftow, " 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." Oh ! if to dance all night, and drefs all day, Charm'd thefinall-pox, or chas'd old-age away; 2*3 Who... | |
 | Epictetus - Conduct of life - 1768 - 334 pages
...Sarpedon, the Son of Jove, that I may fpeak in the fame gallant Way. Brave tho* wt die, and honour' d if we live ; Or let us Glory gain, or Glory give. PoPE. If I can atchieve nothing myfelf, I will not envy another the Honour of doing fome gallant Aclion. But... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1769 - 476 pages
...others pay, let us be/low, And give to fame 'what, we to nature owei Brave tho' we fall, and, honor d if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. POPE. IF any thing can be juftly objected to this tranflation, it is, perhaps, that in one or two places it is too diffufed and... | |
 | Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho" we fall, artd honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! Sarpedon makes the frfl breath in the wall. Bravery and terrible appearance of Heflsr. Ver. 483 ..—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...ignoble age muft come, Difeafs, and death s inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though...we live, ;•' Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He faid j his words the liftening chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warriour's fire;... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - Literary Criticism - 1789 - 402 pages
...; The Ijfe, which others pay, kt us beftow, And give the fame which we to nature owe : Brave, tho* we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. Neither are Homer and Virgil greater friends to Civil Government than to Religion. The firft and leading... | |
 | Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, 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 ! He faid; his words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warrior's fire ;... | |
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