| 1805 - 378 Seiten
...lent. What coward councils would your madness move ? Jove can defend. ...May we not trust in Jove ? Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause ; But why should'st thou suspect the war's success, None fears it more, as none promotes it less ;... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1806 - 402 Seiten
...dictated to me these sentiments in a book written in favour of the aristocratic party, I can have no doubt that Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause2. But we will reserve these matters for our walks3 at the compitalitia. Do not forget, the day... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...sure he most usually relates falsehoods ; however, nothing hinders but he may sometimes speak truth." were sufficient, after such an inauspicious dream,...brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country's causet — for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that... | |
| Homerus - 1807 - 568 Seiten
...irrevocable nod, 275 To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 284 But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less :... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 472 Seiten
...descend; 280 'To right, to left, unheeded take your way, ' While I the dictates of high lieav'n ohey. ' Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, ' And asks no omen but his country's cause. e But why should'st thou suspect the war's success? ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less:... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 346 Seiten
...he most usually relates falschoods ; however, nothing hinders but he may sometimes speak truth," . Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And...event happened as I wished ; and it was that very cause which first procured me the favourable attention of the public, and threw open to me the gates... | |
| James Beattie - 1809 - 262 Seiten
...country is the best of all * P;ir. Lost, briok v. " auguries:"* or, as Pope has very well expressed it, Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause. If we attend to all the circumstances, and reflect that both Hector and Homer believed in auguries,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 Seiten
...where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way. While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why shoiildst thou suspect the war's success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 Seiten
...Irft, unheeded take your w:iy, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his s\vord the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why sliouldst thou suspect the war's success f None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though... | |
| Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 Seiten
...to encounter danger, though they have not sacrificed, may employ [what Hector says to Polydamas,] " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country'^ cause "." 1 Stesichorus signified by this enigma, that if the Locrian* behaved insolently... | |
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