Andromache ! my soul's far better part, Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart.? No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb. Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth, And such the hard condition of our birth :... The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope - Page 154by Homerus - 1807Full view - About this book
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...pursued : — " Andromache ! my soul's far better part, Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart.? No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns...birth : No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide... | |
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...thus pursued : Andromache ! my soul's far better part, Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart I No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns...birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save, All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart? No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemus me to the silent tomb. Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth ; And such the hard condition of onr birth, No force can then resist, no night can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave.... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...XLIX. 6. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; " Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth ; And such...birth : No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave."— HOM. II. 1. VI. v. 488. " Life is not to be bought... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 424 pages
...Tce<t>\rtii{tov Imievai àv&pûv, où какау, oùSé [J.év èa8\bv, ¿TT)]Î> та тгршта. yévijra.i. No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns...birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. See Ramage, p. 77. MAN IN THE HANDS OF GOD. 11. vii. 101.... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...heaves thy heart ? No hostile hand can antedate my doom. Till fate condemn me to the silent tomb. Fixed is the term to all the race of earth; And such the...birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save — All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. Nn more — but hasten to thy tasks at home: There guide... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...heaves thy heart ? No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemn me to the silent tomb. Fixed is the term to all the race of earth; And such the...birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save — All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more— but hasten to thy tasks at home ; There guide... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...Andromache ! my soul's far better part! Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart ? No hostile band can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the...birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...Andromache ! my soul's far better part ! Why with untimely sorrows heaves thy heart ? No hostile band can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the...tomb ; Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth j And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save j All sink... | |
| 1867 - 514 pages
...notions of Fate, Predestination, Fortune, and even Necessity. These were all favourites with antiquity. No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb, wrote Homer; and jEschylus propounded : The free escapes not, fate, more than the wretch That trembles... | |
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