 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 628 pages
...descend ; 280 ' To right, to left, unheeded take your way, 1 While I the dictates of high heaven obey. ' Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, ' And...' But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success P 285 ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less : ' Though all our chiefs amid yon ships expire,... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...inauspicious dream, to have discouraged me. Notwithstanding this, I engaged in the cause, reflecting that, "Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.'" for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that were possible,... | |
 | James Terry White - Character - 1909 - 130 pages
...MONUMENT AT THERMOPYLAE. 11. He serves me most who serves his country best. — ALEXANDER POPE. 12. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. — ALEXANDER POPE. 13. Strike — for your altars and your fires, Strike — for the green groves... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (the Younger) - Friendship - 1909 - 530 pages
...inauspicious dream, to have discouraged me. Notwithstanding this, I engaged in the cause, reflecting that, "Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."2 for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1872 - 708 pages
...in favor of nothing that lies between a simple rendering of the Greek into Pope : (free as usual,) Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. Bryant: . . . Oneaugiiry There is, the surest and the best — to fight For our own land. Barter: (probably... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1914 - 238 pages
...To right or left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of his,'h heaven obey. Without a sigh his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but...fears it more, as none promotes it less. Tho' all our ships amid yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape the fire. Troy and her sons may find... | |
 | William Rhys Roberts - Greek poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...II. 12. 243. " one omen is best, to defend the fatherland," or as Pope's well-known couplet runs : Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause, or more briefly and exactly : The best of omens is our country's cause. In the passage of the Twelfth... | |
 | John Patrick Prendergast - Ireland - 1922 - 618 pages
...disregarded si^ns and omens and their interpretation where the cause of their country was concerned, 9, n. " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country's cause." !>, n. PALE, THE ENGLISH, closed against attacks from O'Connor's Country by the four castles at Kinnefad,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1424 pages
...The brave Love mercy, and delight to save. GAY— Fable. The Lion, Tiger and Traveller. L. 33. 18 ' . The Wreath— From The Lyre. Vol. III. P. 27. (Ed. 1824 ) First HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XII. L. 283. POPE'S trans. 17 ' О friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed... | |
 | John Adams Scott - Epic poetry, Greek - 1925 - 202 pages
...last verse " the world's greatest verse of poetry." It is translated by Pope with a superb couplet: "Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. This however misses the simple dignity of the original, since Homer used but six words. It seems to... | |
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
