 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 376 pages
...ENGLAND AND SPAIN; WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE. (319) ENGLAND AND SPAIN;1 OB, VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM. "His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." — Porn. Too long have Tyranny and Power combined, To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind; Long... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1841 - 498 pages
...such quackery, and answered his superstitious monitors with that well-known verse of Homer : ****** His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. credit previously given to these supposed declarations of the divine will ; and though oracles continued... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...MEMOIR. ENGLAND AND SPAIN; WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE. ENGLAND AND SPAIN;* Mb VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM. " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." — POPS. Too long have Tyranny and Power combined, To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind ; Long... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1843 - 428 pages
...such quackery, and answered his superstitious monitors with that wellknown verse of Homer : ****** His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. The Athenian philosophers contributed much to shake the credit previously given to these supposed declarations... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1847 - 498 pages
...here a troop stood for the empire, and then learn this practical knowledge, that, " Without a priest his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." I beg to observe, that the gentlemen on the other side have established no ground for disqualification... | |
 | Homer - 1849 - 570 pages
...descend ; 280 To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And...success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amid yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice t' escape their fire. Troy and... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1849 - 640 pages
...warning not to storm the Grecian ships,—and exclaims, in the spirit almost of modem philosophy, " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." In the distinctions, however, between the manly belief of Harold and the more servile superstition... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...to-morrow. And may to-night's dreams be good omens ! " " If we dream at all," said Homer again, — " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." They were all standing together, as he made this careless reply to the captain ; and one of the young... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1851 - 398 pages
...and answered his superstitious monitors with that wellknown verse of Homer : • **•** jjjs swor<l the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. The Athenian philosophers contributed much to shake the credit previously given to these supposed declarations... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...where descend . To right, to left, unheeded take your way \vl.il.j 1 the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." NOTE, p. 202. /I..IIL " You hazard more From foe behind than foe before." THE story here recorded of... | |
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
