 Their van will be upon 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 cometh soon or late; And how can man...  Sixth Reader - Stran 86avtor: Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1922Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1847 - 758 strani
...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...two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yond straight path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And... | |
 | 1847 - 760 strani
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 806 strani
...bold Horatius, The captain of the gate : ' To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon órlate; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods?'" Not one other word should stout old Cooles have uttered, of apology for claiming to himself the post... | |
 | 1870 - 494 strani
...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)... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 224 strani
...Who feed the eternal flame, To save them from false Sextus That wrought the deed of shame ? XXIX. " Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed...hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand Alay well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" XXX.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 strani
...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,...Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed you may ; i See note 1, p. 230. I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 strani
...brave' Hora'tius, The Captain of the Gate : To ev'ry man upon this earth, , Death cometh soon or late ! And how' can man' die bet'ter Than facing fearful odds For the ash'es of his fa'thers, And the temple of his Gods'! — MACAULAT. IAMBIC TETRAMETER. Formula x aX4. § 683. In the following the law... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 strani
...brave Horatins, 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,...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,... | |
 | Norman Chevers - 1852 - 396 strani
...life of one Roman was a thing of no small moment in the days of Horatius and Curtius — yet, — " how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds,...ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods ?" Now, human lives are wasted more basely than were even the lives of the retiarii and the myrmillones... | |
 | 1853 - 848 strani
...brave Horatias, 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...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... | |
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