| 1847 - Страниц: 798
...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 - Страниц: 1022
...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... | |
| 1842 - Страниц: 416
...execration greets Sextus ; but the consul despairs of destroying the bridge before the enemy comes on. " Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of 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 - 1843 - Страниц: 142
...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 - Страниц: 438
...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 - Страниц: 1266
...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - Страниц: 558
...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, " And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast,... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - Страниц: 540
...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 - Страниц: 540
...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... | |
| 1847 - Страниц: 760
...little fist, &c. The Romans agree, as the only means of stopping the invaders, to hew down the bridge. " Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed...ye may, I, with two more to help me, Will hold the fc« in play. In yond straight path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on... | |
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