 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war : But since, alas 1 ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | William John Courthope - Aesthetics - 1901 - 474 pages
...to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must 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, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. We watch the conflict... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's canse. Book xii. Line 283 The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Line 393. And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air. Book xiii. Line 106. The best of things beyond... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 366 pages
...Original Gtnius and Writings of Homer, London, 1775, p. vii. 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. Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1903 - 488 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,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honored if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! (POPE : Iliad,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. Book xii. Line 283 The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. t,\ne 3^3, And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air. Book xiii. Line 10<i. The best of things beyond... | |
 | Agnes Maule Machar - Canada - 1903 - 616 pages
...since, alas 1 ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, That Life which other's pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave let us fall, or honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain or glory give. Such, men shall own,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 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, alas! ignoble ace must come, 391 Disease, and death's inexorable doom; The life which others pay, let us bestow,... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - English literature - 1905 - 282 pages
...grave, Which claims no less the fearful and the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since,...others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to honor owe; Brave though we fall, and honor'd if we live, Or let us glory gain or glory give ! ' ' Outward... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...imitate! Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare eo In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; 66 Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!' CHARACTER OF... | |
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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... 
