 The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe " — is excellent, and is just suited to Pope's heroic couplet; but neither the antithesis itself, nor the couplet which conveys it, is suited to the feeling or to the...  Essays in Criticism - Стр. 299авторы: Matthew Arnold - 1866 - Страниц: 506Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1887 - Страниц: 592
...urge thy 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." His lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determined resignation; and after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 800
...thy foul to war. 39* But Since, alas! ignobl'¿ age muSt come, Dileafe, and death's inexorable doom; The life which others pay, let us be-Stow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give I He faid; his words... | |
 | 1805 - Страниц: 378
...urge your souls 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 honor'd if we live, * Or let us glory gain, or glory give : Think on your... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - Страниц: 472
...thy soul to war. 390 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 tho' we fall, and houor'd if we live, 395 Or let us glory gain, or glory give!" He said : his... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - Страниц: 568
...urge thy 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 honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give! He said; his words... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - Страниц: 516
...estimate of what is really valuable in life, and with hearts proud of suffering for our country. " The life, which others pay, let us bestow; " And give to Fame, wh^t we to Nature owe; '* Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, " Or let us glory gain, or... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1810 - Страниц: 338
...souls to war. But since disease, and age, and death will come, And all must meet th' inexorable doom, The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe. Your ancient valour on the foes approve, Jove is with us, and we will trust in Jove. Tis not for us,... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1811 - Страниц: 370
...to war. But since, aias! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life that others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. Brave, though we fall, yet honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give! Speech of SarpeJon... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - Страниц: 572
...estimate of what is really valuable in life, and with hearts proud of suffering for our country. " The life, which others pay, let us bestow; " And give to Fame, what we to Nature owe; " Brave though we fall, arid honour'd if we lire, " Or let us glorji gain, or glory give!" CHAPTER... | |
 | 1813 - Страниц: 374
...urge thy 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 honour'd if we live) Or let us glory gain, or glory give!' He said; his words... | |
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