 In fighting fields, nor urge the 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 though we fall, and honoured if we live,...  Early Lessons: In Four Volumes - Página 14por Maria Edgeworth - 1835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 páginas
...inexorable doom, The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame 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. 25.— ALEXANDER THE GREAT. FROM THE TBNTH BOOK OF LUCAN's FHARSALIA. DISDAINING what... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 páginas
...which others pay, let us bestow, And give to 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 are rendered thus in Cowper's Iliad : — " Why gaze they... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 páginas
...inexorable doom, The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame 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 washed, just washed in a shower, Which Mary to Anna conveyed... | |
 | 1866 - 532 páginas
...Laura. The life which others pay, let ua bestow, And give to feme what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' They are magnificent verses ; perhaps the best that Pope ever wrote. In fact he seems to have known... | |
 | 1866 - 592 páginas
...life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, aud honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' They are magnificent verses ; perhaps the best that Pope ever wrote. In fact he seems to have known... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 páginas
...glutted there. DKYDEN. The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave, though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gaiu, or glory give. POPE. Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings showed the distant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 páginas
...inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. — WARBURTON. The passage quoted by Warburton is from Pope's own translation of the Episode of Sarpedon,... | |
 | 1871 - 630 páginas
...death's inexorable doom, The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." Pope, Homer. " Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions." — Smith, Wealth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 576 páginas
...inexorable doom ; The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." As the work proceeded the poet's subscribers saw no reason to repeat of the support they had given... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 páginas
...inexorable doom ; The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give." As the work proceeded the poet's subscribers saw no reason to repent of the support they had given... | |
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