 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 300 pages
...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...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 pages
...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...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 pages
...Matthew Arnold in his lectures " On Translating Homer " quoted a passage from Pope's version : — But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 pages
...brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war : Bat since, alas! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 314 pages
...Which claims no leas 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 oome, Disease, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - Literary Criticism - 1912 - 368 pages
...Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not greatly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war ; But since, alas!...age must come Disease and death's inexorable doom; That life which others pay, let us bestow. And give to fame what we to nature owe." Pope's Translation,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 pages
...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...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. BO Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent ; and nothing, too, could be better in its... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Books and reading - 1919 - 432 pages
...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...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. " You must not call it Homer," said Bentley... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...trans. 13 "Hie rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. HOMER— Iliad. Bk.XI. L.394. POPE'S trans. 14 ittle, the whole matter And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip, HOMER— Iliad. Bk.XII. L. 393. POPE'S trans. 15 Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame. HOMER... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1928 - 280 pages
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge the 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.' power of this brilliant work. Its merit... | |
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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... 
