| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 páginas
...wings extend, Or where the sun arise, or where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way' — 'Without a sign .his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.' " Pope's Homer, II. xii. 279. their own faults to the charge of old age, which that Ennius, of whom... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1868 - 334 páginas
...to-morrow. And may to-night's dreams be good omens ! " " If we dream at all," said Homer again : — " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." They were all standing together, as he made this careless reply to the captain ; and one of the young... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1868 - 476 páginas
...here a troop stood for the empire, and then learn this practical knowledge, that, " Without a priest, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause". I beg to observe, that the gentlemen on the other side have established no ground for disqualification... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - 1869 - 264 páginas
...forbid the battle, saying — etç ouovoч âpuгroч àfivveffBai тгepl тгaтprjч. Without a bird his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. It is he who is ever ready to expose himself for the common cause against the most doughty champion... | |
| Homerus - 1874 - 494 páginas
...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...success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amidst yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape their fire. Troy... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Book ix. Line 725. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. Book xii. Line 283. ODYSSEY. Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires, and most their sires... | |
| John Patrick Prendergast - 1875 - 580 páginas
...day stood instead of the voice of the Church and the interpretation of Scripture, he answered — " Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." the coast strangers had built seaport towns, either traders from the Carthaginian settlements in Spain,... | |
| Homer - 1877 - 558 páginas
...descend ; 280 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...success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amid yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice t' escape their fire. Troy and... | |
| Homer - 1878 - 596 páginas
...descend ; 280 ' 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 shpuldst thou suspect the war's success P 285 ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less : ' Though... | |
| Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 páginas
...inauspicious dream, to have discouraged me. Notwithstanding this, I engaged in the cause, reflecting that, ' Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.' f for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that were possible,... | |
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