 | 1847 - 798 páginas
...keep the bridge : — " Then ont spoke bold Horatins, The captain of the gate : ' To every man npon this earth Death cometh soon or late ; And how can man die better Than facing fearfnl odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods?'" Not one other word shonld... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...us Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? " Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain 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 - 142 páginas
...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 - 438 páginas
...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 - 1266 páginas
...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 Horatius, The 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 - 540 páginas
...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 - 540 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 494 páginas
...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)... | |
 | 1847 - 806 páginas
...than the blunt declaration by Horatius of his readiness to keep the bridge : — " Then out spoke 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, For the ashes of his fathers, And the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
