 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - Страниц: 1022
...foe: " Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? " Then out spake brave...of the gate: " To every man upon this earth Death comcth soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Страниц: 438
...Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?" 27. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the...ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods, 28. " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Страниц: 142
...Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?" 27. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the...ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods, 28. " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 1266
...Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down ; VOL. I. 20 And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?' Then out spake brave...captain of the gate; 'To every man upon this earth Drath cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing tearful odds, For the ashes of his... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - Страниц: 540
...acquired the name of Subliciux from the wooden piles which supported it. After the achieveThen out spoke brave Horatius, The captain of the gate : " To every...this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can men die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - Страниц: 540
...Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ?" " To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or...better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathen And the temples of his gods, " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 806
...bold Horatius, The captain of the gate : ' To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon órlate; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods?'" Not one other word should stout old Cooles have uttered, of apology for claiming to himself the post... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 494
...Regillus," or " Horatius Codes," and then Albert would repeat after me in a kind of rhapsody — " For how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods ?" I was living Merton days once more ; I was " Long Jim" (my nickname at Merton, because of my stature)... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - Страниц: 424
...bullets they did send ; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end ! HOOD. OFFEK OF HORATIUS.1 Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods ! " Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed you may ; i See note 1, p. 230. I, with two... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - Страниц: 1502
...lambios, with an additional syllable. Then out' spake brave' Hora'tius, The Captain of the Gate : To ev'ry man upon this earth, , Death cometh soon or late !...fearful odds For the ash'es of his fa'thers, And the temple of his Gods'! — MACAULAT. IAMBIC TETRAMETER. Formula x aX4. § 683. In the following the law... | |
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Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : " To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods. 
