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 Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6271847Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 pages
...every man upon this eartli 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, " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast,... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...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 ? " Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may ; I, with two more to help me, will... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 344 pages
...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, " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pages
...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 ? — MACAULAY, /.-'//.-•, Horatiuğ. — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, DEATH came with friendly... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1878 - 236 pages
...words stirred every heart, and nerved every arm : — "And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods. And for the tender mother who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses his baby at her breast."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 240 pages
...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, XXVIII. " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1879 - 410 pages
...every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better than in facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods ? " But there is a nobler death even than that. It is the death of him who perishes facing and resisting... | |
 | Robert S. Bevier - 1879 - 538 pages
...with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play; For how ean man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? — [Lays of Ancient Rome. J HA WAS the morning after the battle of Corinth, and | our dead comrades... | |
 | William Mercer Green - 1879 - 54 pages
...neighbors, and friends, and countrymen, calling to him, " How can man die better, Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his Fathers, And the Temples of his Gods ? " That call he honestly, manfully, and fatally obeyed. An All-wise Providence saw fit that he should... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 260 pages
...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 ? " Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may ; I — with two more to help me —... | |
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