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... Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome - 10 ページ 編集 - 1856 - 3 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Alexander Pope - 1889 - 576 ページ
...fearful than the bnive, 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,...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 ページ
...should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge the soul to war. 168 LIFE OF POPE. [CILAP. vin. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 ページ
...greedy 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 I Ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us bestow,... | |
| Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 516 ページ
...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...us bestow And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. P. Horn. MARCH. The Aspects this Month are violent and extraordinary, portending burning of Houses,... | |
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1893 - 280 ページ
...always, — forward ! Either we shall give glory to a foeman, or he to us." Pope translates : — " But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease,...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." The two last verses are an expansion of the one Greek word, "o/tev, — " forward ! " — and how the... | |
| Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1893 - 286 ページ
...forward ! Either we shall give glory to a foeman, or he to us." Pope translates : — " But since, alas 1 ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." The two last verses are an expansion of the one Greek word, 'O/ACV, — " forward ! " — and how the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 432 ページ
...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....us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Pope's Horn. II. xii. 387. " ' His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 496 ページ
...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....us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe. Pope's Horn. II. xii. 387. " ' His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate... | |
| Arthur Granville Bradley - 1895 - 240 ページ
...but never surely has a memorable passage been illustrated" in a fashion so striking and so glorious. 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. Brave let us fall,... | |
| John Dennis - 1896 - 276 ページ
...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,...what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' We may add that neither its false glitter... | |
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