 | Homerus - 1721 - 244 pages
...The life which others pay, let 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 words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warrior's fire; The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...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 be fuch a fin to paint. But fmce, alas... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
..." The life which others pay, let us beftow, " 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." Oh ! if to dance all night, and drefs all day, Charm'd thefinall-pox, or chas'd old-age away; 2*3 Who... | |
 | Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 pages
...which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave tho" we fall, artd honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! Sarpedon makes the frfl breath in the wall. Bravery and terrible appearance of Heflsr. Ver. 483 ..—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...ignoble age muft come, Difeafs, and death s inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though...we live, ;•' Or let us glory gain, or glory give ! He faid j his words the liftening chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warriour's fire;... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - Literary Criticism - 1789 - 402 pages
...; The Ijfe, which others pay, kt us beftow, And give the fame which we to nature owe : Brave, tho* we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give. Neither are Homer and Virgil greater friends to Civil Government than to Religion. The firft and leading... | |
 | Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, 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 ! He faid; his words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth, and rouze the warrior's fire ;... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 386 pages
...doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, 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! 396 He faid; his words the lift'ning chief infpire With equal warmth, androufe the warrior's fire;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, 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." This paflage was the firft fpecimen our author gave of his tranflation of Homer ; and it appeared firft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, 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." This paflage was the firft fpecimen our author gave of his tranflation of Homer ; and it appeared firft... | |
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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... 
