 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
 | M. S. Silk - History - 2004 - 116 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,...bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe: Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us Glory gain, or Glory give! The Sarpedon passage is... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1866 - 784 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,...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honorM If we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." We can quote no such passage from Lord Derby.... | |
 | Classical philology - 1820 - 378 pages
...minimeque Romani, dubitare, eum Spiritum, quein NATURE quis DEBiiAT, patriae reddere. Philipp. X. 20. POPE. The life which others pay, let us bestow ; And give to fame what we TO NATURE OWE. Transl. of Iliad, XII. HORACE. Propriae telluris herum natura neque ilium, Nee me, nee quemquatn statuit... | |
 | Military art and science - 1837 - 598 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, The life that others give let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave though we fall, and honour'd... | |
 | Asia - 1832 - 604 pages
...human sculls, { Queen of the Apsaras, or celestial nymphs. I Pope makes Sarpeuon say : The life, that others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. •* • The city of the moon.' son iotos ; he journied to Swerga to visit Jcswunt. San Job the bard,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1868 - 868 pages
...translates io/i£i', i}t T<¡> ei/x«c ¿pfiofiff, »/£ TIC >ip~i>; by The life that others yield, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe, he adds a feeling of his own rather than let that of Homer starve ; and so does Mr. Worsley, when he... | |
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