No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle and direct the loom. Me glory summons to the martial scene ; The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first... The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope - Page 154by Homerus - 1807Full view - About this book
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...race of earth, And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save, All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more...scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first in fame. Thus having... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 634 pages
...of earth ; And such the hard condition of onr birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more...guide the spindle, and direct the loom : Me glory summous to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men ; Where heroes war, the foremost... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Hector bids Andromache — " Hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle and direct the loom." HOM. //. 1. vi. v. 490. " Silence and modesty are best for a woman, and to remain in-doore." EURIP.... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...of earth; And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save — All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more—...scene — The field of combat is the sphere for men : Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim — The first in danger, as the first in fame. Thus... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...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...scene — The field of combat is the sphere for men : Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim — The first in danger, as the tirst in fame. Tims... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...of earth j And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save j All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more...martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men ; Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first in fame." 13. Thus... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...of earth ; And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more...martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men ; Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first in fame." 13. Thus... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...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 the spindle,...scene; The field of combat is the sphere for men; Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first in fame. EXERCISE CLXXVII.... | |
| Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...of earth ; And such the hard condition of our birth, No force can then resist, no flight can save ; All sink alike, the fearful and the brave. No more...martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for mea ; Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, as the first in fame." 13.... | |
| John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...ROWE'S Lucan Nations with nations mixt confus'dly die, And lost in one promiscuous carnage lie. ADDUON. Me glory summons to the martial scene ; The field of combat is the sphere for men. Wheie heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger, and the first in fame. POPE'S Homn... | |
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