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... The Christian Remembrancer - Page 2041843Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...us Before the bridge goes down ; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town 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, with two more to help me, Will... | |
| Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - 336 pages
...till your proud heart break, Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Then out spake brave Horatius, the captain of the...the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods ?" Truth crushed to earth shall rise again — The eternal years of God are hers ; But Error, wounded,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.1 History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or...the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods ? Lays of Ancient Route. Horatius, xxvii. How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1874 - 208 pages
...bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' XXVII. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Grate : ' To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or...odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of Ids Gods, XXVIII. ' And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses... | |
| Noel Annan - 1997 - 300 pages
...defied the Nazis in 1940 when they threatened to cross the bridge and who echoed Horatius in thinking: And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods? Nor is it wrong to see Roosevelt, the American Scipio, as the man who gave hope to his countrymen during... | |
| John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 pages
...war worth fighting is a war in defense of your wife, your children, your parents, and your home: "For how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers and the altars of his gods?" We Americans, as subjects of a metastasizing world empire, know all too well that... | |
| Brian Holden Reid - 1997 - 284 pages
...or groups prepared, like Horatius at the Bridge, to make the supreme sacrifice ('And how can man do better than facing fearful odds/ For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods'):" Charles Gordon at Khartoum, the Last Stand of the 24th Foot at 1sandhlwana, the Last Stand of the 44th... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...slay, and slay; The Gods who live for ever Are on our side to-day. 6839 Lays of Ancient Rome 'Horatius' Then out spake brave Horatius. The Captain of the...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?' 6840 Lays of Ancient Rome 'Horatius' Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?... | |
| Laura M. Berquist - 1999 - 500 pages
...the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge What hope to save the town?" Then outspake brave Horatius. The captain of the gate: "To every...ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? "Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold... | |
| Claire M. Tylee, Elaine Turner, Agnes Cardinal - 1999 - 242 pages
...Palestine. (POLLY clasps her hands.l POLLY And he a hero. Oh, Jack! EDIE (recitingl Then up spake hrave Horatius, The captain of the gate, To every man upon...earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die hetter Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, And the temple of his gods?" WIDOW TUESDAY... | |
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