 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...coward councils would your madness move ? Jove can defend. ...May we not trust in Jove ? Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause ; But why should'st thou suspect the war's success, None fears it more, as none promotes it less ;... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1806 - 402 pages
...sentiments in a book written in favour of the aristocratic party, I can have no doubt that Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause2. But we will reserve these matters for our walks3 at the compitalitia. Do not forget, the day... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 284 But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less :... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...right, to left, unheeded take your way, ' While I the dictates of high lieav'n ohey. ' Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, ' And asks no omen but his country's cause. e But why should'st thou suspect the war's success? ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less:... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...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 causet — for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Authors, Latin - 1809 - 340 pages
...usually relates falsehoods ; however, nothing binders but he may sometimes speak- truth." 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,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...of all * P;ir. Lost, briok v. " auguries:"* or, as Pope has very well expressed it, Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause. If we attend to all the circumstances, and reflect that both Hector and Homer believed in auguries,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...To right, to left, unheeded take your way. While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why shoiildst thou suspect the war's success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...Irft, unheeded take your w:iy, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his s\vord the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why sliouldst thou suspect the war's success f None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...witty, becomes the poetic dress, though it may not be picturesque.— Instances : •— — -— " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause, May I, or noble life, or death obtain, Death, ill-exchang'd for bondage, or for pain." '' O let not... | |
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
