 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!  The Iliad of Homer - Page 290by Homer - 1760Full view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1721 - 244 pages
...390 In fighting fields, nor urge thy foul to war. But fince, alas! ignoble age muft come, Difcafe, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others...us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; 3p5" Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give! He faid; his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...mould not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy foul to war. But fince, alafs ! ignoble age muit come, Difeafe, and death's inexorable doom ; , The life which others pay, let us bcftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Prop'd... | |
 | Homerus - 1756 - 224 pages
...excellently translated by Sir John Denbam, and if I have done it with any fpirjt, it is partly owing to him. The life which others pay, let us beftow, And give...; Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, 395 Ot let us glory gain, or glory give ? He faid; his words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...muft come, ' Difeafe, and death's inexorable doom ; ' The life which others pay, let us beftovv, ' 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. To petch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it Cure... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...dare Infighting folds, nor urge thy foul to "war. Butjince, alas ! ignoble age mujl come, T)ifeale. and death's inexorable doom : •» •? * -* The...fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho we fall, and honor' d ifwe live> Or let us glory gain, or glory give. POPE. IF any thing cart be juftly obje<5ted... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...Ijhould not vainly dare In fghting folds, nor urge thy foul to -war. Butj;nce, alas ! ignoble age mufl come> Difeafe, and death's inexorable doom ; 'The life, which others pay ,- let us bejtow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ) Brave tho iste fall, and honor d if we live> Or let... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...luft of fame 1 fhould not vainly dare *' In fighting fields, nor urge thy foul to war. " But finee, alas ! ignoble age muft come, " Difeafe, .and death's...owe ; " Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Oh ! if to dance all night, and drefs all day, Charm'd thefinall-pox, or chas'd old-age away; 2*3 Who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...For luft of fame I fhould not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy foul to war. " But fince, alas! ignoble age muft come, " Difeafe, and death's...nature owe; " Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we livs, *' Or let us glory gain, or glory give/' Oh! if to dance all night, and drefs all day, Charm'd... | |
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1762 - 358 pages
...; For Lull of Fame I mould not vainly dare In fighting Fields, nor urge thy Soul to War: But fince, alas ! ignoble Age muft come, Difeafe, and Death's...inexorable Doom : The Life which others pay, let us bellow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe : Brave, tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let... | |
 | Homer - 1773 - 248 pages
...ignoble age muft come, Difeafc, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftowr 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 gite ! He faid ; his words the lift'ning chief... | |
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