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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... "
Translation of the Iliad of Homer - Page 270
by Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 544 pages
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Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ...

1805 - 378 pages
...breath, On endless slav'ry, or on instant death ; Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claim no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame...should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge your souls to war ; But since alas, ignoble age must come, Disease and death's inexorable doom ; The...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 41

John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...Such, they may cry, deserves the sov'reign state, ' Whom those that envy, dare not imitate ! 386 ' Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, ' Which...ignoble age must come, ' Disease, and death's inexorable dooiii ; ' The life which others pay, let us bestow, ' And give to fame what we to nature owe; ' Brave...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...cry, deserve the sovereign state, 385 Whom those that envy, dare not imitate! Could all our care elnde the gloomy grave. Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame 1 should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. 390 But since, alas! ignoble...
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The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...imitate ! 386 Could all our care elnde the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the hrave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. 300 But since, alas! ignohle age must come, Disease, and death's inexorahle doom ; The life which others...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...Such,' they may cry, ' deserve the sovercig» state, Whom those that envy, dare not imitate !' fould all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims...brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In lighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...martial bands Behold our deeds transcending our commands, ' Such,' they may cry, ' deserve the sorertip state, Whom those that envy, dare not imitate!' Could...gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brve, For lust of fame I should not vaiuly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. Hut since,...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection ..., Volume 14

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1811 - 370 pages
...sov'reign state. Whom those that envy dare not imitate!" Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, That claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust...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...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ...

John Nichols - 1812 - 782 pages
...ffytr&s'iy A/avaroiO Mt/{ia«, ag «'» Ert tyvyiii |3{oTov, «^ tnra\i>£atj "lo/*ir. II. M. 338. Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims...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 which others...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ...

John Nichols - 1812 - 844 pages
...EjlATTIS ya&Y )t'1J?; IfyrOO'ty VCt»C6TO(0 a; iix tr> ^uytVir /SjoTov, £5* iJiraX'JJaj, *. II. M. 329, Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims...brave, For lust of fame, I should not vainly dare Jn fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ' ignoble age must come, Disease, and...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 2

1813 - 374 pages
...grace ; The first in valour, as the first in place ; That when with wondering eyes our martial band) Behold our deeds transcending our commands, Such,...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, which others...
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