 | 1847 - 798 sider
...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 - 1022 sider
...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 - 416 sider
...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 - 142 sider
...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 - 438 sider
...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 - 1266 sider
...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 - 558 sider
...shook its little 6st. But the consul's brow was sad, And the consul's speech was low, And darkly look'd he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. " Their van...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 - 540 sider
...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 - 540 sider
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 494 sider
...Regillus," or " Horatius Codes," and then Albert would repeat after me in a kind of rhapsody — " For how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods ?" I was living Merton days once more ; I was " Long Jim" (my nickname at Merton, because of my stature)... | |
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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 die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods... 
