 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
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 628 pages
...brave, ' For lust of fame I should not vainly dare ' In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. "00 ' But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, ' Disease,...doom ; ' The life which others pay, let us bestow, 4 And give to fame what we to nature owe ; ' Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we lire, 393 ' Or... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1909 - 402 pages
...commands, Such, they may cry, deserve the sovereign state, Whom those that envy dare not imitate! . . . The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall ,and honor'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! " (Pope: Iliad, Book xii.)... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1909 - 406 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 the... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 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. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 300 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. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 pages
...Matthew Arnold in his lectures " On Translating Homer " quoted a passage from Pope's version : — But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 296 pages
...brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war : Bat since, alas! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 306 pages
...vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war : But since, alas ! ignoble age must oome, Disease, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which...us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. And on this Arnold made the pertinent comment that " nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1912 - 362 pages
...fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not greatly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war ; 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." Pope's Translation,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 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. BO Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent ; and nothing, too, could be better in its... | |
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