 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...To live with fame " The God's allow to many j but to die " With equal lustre, is a blessing heav'n " Selects from all the choicest boons of fate, " And with a sparing hand on few bestows." Who would not think and act with Leonidas ? none but the base-born, low, and groveling sons of men,... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...OF COMALTA, To live with fame, The gods allow to many ; bat to die With equal lustre, is a biasing Heaven Selects from all the choicest boons of fate, And with a sparing band on few bestows. CLOVER. VOL. IV. LONDON : PRINTED AT THE TOR AK NEWMAN AND CO. IiE ADEN HA LL-STREET.... | |
 | 1814 - 516 pages
...wanting virtue, life is pain and woe, And wanting liberty, ev'n virtue mourns ! Sparta, my life is thine. To live with fame The gods allow to many ; but to...boons of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows ! (A general shout of exultation. They all rise.) Ear. So from Thermopylae may Sparta's shout* Affright... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...О Sparta, and demand my life ; My heart exulting, answers to thy calf, And smiles on glorious fate. To live with fame The gods allow to many ! but to...boons of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows. § 125. Leónidas s Answer to the Persia» Ambassador. RETURN to Xerxes ; tell him on this rock The... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutierrez - 1826 - 436 pages
...To live with fame The Gods allow to many! but to die With equal lustre, is a blessing Heaven SeleeU from all the choicest boons of fate. And with a sparing hand on few bestows. ULOYKK'S Leonitlas. SANDOVAT,, having got clear of his enemies, with only some scratches and bruises... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...fame, The Gods allow to many ; but to die With equal lustre is a blessing Heaven Selects from all her choicest boons of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows." Had their deaths occurred on any other day, monuments and statues might have been erected to them,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...Sparta ! and demand my life ; My heart exulting, answers to thy call, And smiles on glorious fate. To live with fame The gods» allow to many ; but to die With equal lustre is a Salvation thus to Sparta he proclaimed. Joy, wrapt awhile in admiration, paused, Suspending praise... | |
 | Sir James Scott - 1834 - 338 pages
...in a halo of brightness which will shed its piercing rays into the darkest recesses of futurity. " To live with fame The Gods allow to many ; but to...of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows." A fatality appeared to attend us during this unfortunate cruise ; eight or ten men were lost overboard.... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1837 - 58 pages
...in the struggle with the grave — where, then, is their philosophy — where, then, their glory? " To live with fame The gods allow to many — but to...of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows." , In the all trying hour of death, how many heroes have dropped their masks, and shrunk to less than... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Sparta ! and demand my life ; My heart, exulting, answers to thy call, And smiles on glorious fate. To live with fame The gods allow to many ; but to...of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows.' Salvation thus to Sparta he proclaimed. Joy, wrapt awhile in admiration, paused, Suspending praise... | |
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To live with fame The gods allow to many; but to die With equal lustre is a blessing Heaven Selects from all the choicest boons of fate. And with a sparing hand on few bestows. 
