 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. 390 But since, alas! ignoble Age must come, Disease, and Death's inexorable...  Translation of the Iliad of Homer - Page 270by Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 544 pages
...the brave, For lust of fame, I should not vainly oare In fighting field?, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom ;t The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. " is gone, yesterday,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 516 pages
...ihc 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 ;t The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." is gone, yesterday,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...and the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge my soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease and...fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, arfd honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give !" Why on these shores ? &c. These lines... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...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 pay, let us...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." — Warburton. This passage... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war: — But since, alas! iguoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us bestow, And pive to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...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...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. Pope's Homer. X. THE ROSE. The rose had been... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...brave, For lest 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 honour1 d if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He said ; his words the listening chief... | |
 | 1887 - 592 pages
...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." His lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determined resignation ; and after... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1861 - 132 pages
...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. Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious talent ; and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | 1862 - 610 pages
...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...let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.'1 Throughout the Iliad, indeed, we shall find every variety of •xaltedjemotion. We have patriotism... | |
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