...descend ; 280 ' To right, to left, unheeded take your way, 1 While I the dictates of high heaven obey. ' Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, ' And...' But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success P 285 ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less : ' Though all our chiefs amid yon ships expire,...

...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.'" for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that were possible,...

...MONUMENT AT THERMOPYLAE. 11. He serves me most who serves his country best. — ALEXANDER POPE. 12. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. — ALEXANDER POPE. 13. Strike — for your altars and your fires, Strike — for the green groves...

...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."2 for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that...

...in favor of nothing that lies between a simple rendering of the Greek into Pope : (free as usual,) Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. Bryant: . . . Oneaugiiry There is, the surest and the best — to fight For our own land. Barter: (probably...

...To right or left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of his,'h heaven obey. Without a sigh his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but...fears it more, as none promotes it less. Tho' all our ships amid yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape the fire. Troy and her sons may find...

...II. 12. 243. " one omen is best, to defend the fatherland," or as Pope's well-known couplet runs : Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause, or more briefly and exactly : The best of omens is our country's cause. In the passage of the Twelfth...

...disregarded si^ns and omens and their interpretation where the cause of their country was concerned, 9, n. " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country's cause." !>, n. PALE, THE ENGLISH, closed against attacks from O'Connor's Country by the four castles at Kinnefad,...

...The brave Love mercy, and delight to save. GAY— Fable. The Lion, Tiger and Traveller. L. 33. 18 ' . The Wreath— From The Lyre. Vol. III. P. 27. (Ed. 1824 ) First HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XII. L. 283. POPE'S trans. 17 ' О friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed...

...last verse " the world's greatest verse of poetry." It is translated by Pope with a superb couplet: "Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. This however misses the simple dignity of the original, since Homer used but six words. It seems to...