 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 496 σελίδες
...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...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 - 430 σελίδες
...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...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 - 238 σελίδες
...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, or honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. Such, men shall own, deserve... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 σελίδες
...FAME. 201 Short is my date, but deathless my renown. 1. HOMEB— Iliad. Bk. IX. L. 535. Pope's trans. en it, my gentle boy ! Ear hath" account the use that a man should seek of the pu m. HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XII. L. 393. Pope's trans. The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. n. HOMEB—... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - 1896 - 526 σελίδες
...profile as follows : — [" But since 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, or honor' d if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give, — Such, men shall own,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 σελίδες
...the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to wari 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 5 talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 σελίδες
...impresses us in the same way as when it was uttered by Homer. The antithesis of the last two lines — ; "The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe " — 15 is excellent, and is just suited to Pope's heroic couplet ; but neither the antithesis itself,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1898 - 458 σελίδες
...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...us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe." Nothing could better exhibit Pope's prodigious 5 talent, and nothing, too, could be better in its own... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 σελίδες
...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,...fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honoured if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.' power of this brilliant work. Its merit... | |
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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... 
