 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 311805 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas I Ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured If we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.— WARBURTON. The passage quoted by Warburton... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 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,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Bravo though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.— WARBUBTON.... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Greek poetry - 1893 - 280 pages
...always, — forward ! Either we shall give glory to a foeman, or he to us." Pope translates : — " But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." The two last verses are an expansion of the one Greek word, "o/tev, — " forward ! " — and how the... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Classical poetry - 1893 - 286 pages
...forward ! Either we shall give glory to a foeman, or he to us." Pope translates : — " But since, alas 1 ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." The two last verses are an expansion of the one Greek word, 'O/ACV, — " forward ! " — and how the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Authors, English - 1895 - 496 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,...us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Pope's Horn. II. xii. 387. " ' His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 432 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,...us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Pope's Horn. II. xii. 387. " ' His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - Generals - 1895 - 238 pages
...but never surely has a memorable passage been illustrated" in a fashion so striking and so glorious. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, That life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave let us fall,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge the soul to war, But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' We may add that neither its false glitter... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...FAME. 201 Short is my date, but deathless my renown. 1. HOMEB— Iliad. Bk. IX. L. 535. Pope's trans. en it, my gentle boy ! Ear hath" account the use that a man should seek of the pu m. HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XII. L. 393. Pope's trans. The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. n. HOMEB—... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1896 - 526 pages
...profile as follows : — [" But since ignoble age"]* must come, Disease and death's inexorable doom, That life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave let us fall, or honor' d if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give, — Such, men shall own,... | |
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