 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
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to wari But since, alas ! ignoble age must come. Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious 5 talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 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 " — 15 is excellent, and is just suited to Pope's heroic couplet ; but neither the antithesis itself,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1898 - 458 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 5 talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 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,...fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' power of this brilliant work. Its merit... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 464 pages
...passage thus : — 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée (i.e. Alexandre Léon), Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 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,... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1899 - 204 pages
...wise ; Do you, young warriors, hear my age advise " ; " and pay in glory what in life you owe " ; " the life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe " ; " she scorned the champion but the man she loved " ; " thy love the motive and thy charms the prize... | |
 | Edward Capps - Greek literature - 1901 - 514 pages
...fearful and 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,...others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to honor owe ; Brave though we fall, and honor'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! " XII,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 620 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. Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | William John Courthope - Aesthetics - 1901 - 474 pages
...fearful and the brave, For lust of fame I would not vainly dare In fighting fields to urge the soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life that others pay let us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Brave though we fall, and honoured... | |
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