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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... "
Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ... - Page 31
1805 - 358 pages
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1856 - 590 pages
...fearful than the brave. For lust of fame I should not vninly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war:— But since, alas! ignoble age must come,...fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory .gain, or glory give ! IIKF.DS ОТ HECTOR. As when two scales...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul till regards. And though she plays no more, o'erlooks...For when the fair in all their pride expire, To th honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give !" He said ; his words the listening chief...
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Temple Bar, Volume 81

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 592 pages
...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,...bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe." His lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determined resignation ; and after...
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On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford

Matthew Arnold - Greek language - 1861 - 144 pages
...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,...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...
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On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford

Matthew Arnold - Translating and interpreting - 1861 - 132 pages
...impresses us in the same way as when it was uttered by Homer. The antithesis of the last two lines : The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe : is excellent, and is just suited to Pope's heroic couplet; but neither the antithesis itself, nor...
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The North British Review, Volume 36

English literature - 1862 - 610 pages
...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,...let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.'1 Throughout the Iliad, indeed, we shall find every variety of •xaltedjemotion. We have patriotism...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 25

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1866 - 840 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...fame, what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and bonorM If we live, Or let Ui glory gain, or glory give." We can quote no such passage from Jx>rd Derby....
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 25

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1866 - 784 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 ; Bravo though we fall, and honor'd If we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." ' We can quote...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 51

1866 - 592 pages
...in Miss Edgeworth's Early Lessons, this passage of Pope is made the favourite of her heroine Laura. The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, aud honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' They are magnificent verses...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 51

Christianity - 1866 - 532 pages
...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 doom, i Some of our readers may remember how, in Miss Edgeworth's Early Lessons, this passage of Pope is...
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