 | 1842 - 416 pages
...the bridge before the enemy comes on. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 206 pages
...bridge, What hope to save the town ? " H 27. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...bridge, What hope to save the town?" 27. 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... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...two-handed sword of the Black Prince. " 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...the bridge, What hope to save the town 1" 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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...piles which supported it. After the achieveThen out spoke brave Horatius, The captain of the gate : " To every man upon 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...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 late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathen And the temples of his... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...upshot in the end ! HOOD. OFFEK OF HORATIUS.1 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...Rome. [Horatins offers to defend the Bridge.] Then out spake 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, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his... | |
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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... 
