 | John Chappel Woodhouse - 1805 - 696 pages
...Hebrew, which is applied to signify the South, signifies also the right hand. t Instance the Rhine. t Ye vagrants of the sky, your wings extend, Or where...the Suns arise, or where descend, To right, to left - . POPE, line 279§ Job xiv. 17. Matt, xxvii. 66. f| Augustin. in Juhann. vi. — What is sealing,... | |
 | 1805 - 378 pages
...lent. What 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
...me these 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... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 426 pages
...left. Thus Homer brings in Hector telling Polydamas, that he regarded not the birds. //. xii. 239. Ye vagrants of the sky ! your wings extend Or where the suns arise or where descend. To right and left unheeded take your way. POPE. Sec Potter's Arch. Grac. vol. ib 2. cap. 15. No. 1352. — viii.... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...irrevocable nod, 275 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 :... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 pages
...inauspicious dream, to 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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...guide my wav'ring mii^ ' By wand'ring hirds, that flit with ev'ry wind' Book XII. HOMER'S ILIAD. 151 ' Ye vagrants of the sky ! your wings extend, ' Or where the suns arise, or where descend; 280 'To right, to left, unheeded take your way, ' While I the dictates of high lieav'n ohey. ' Without... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 346 pages
...he most usually relates falschoods ; however, nothing hinders 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... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...country is the best 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,... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1809 - 890 pages
...J'Jyauiiijt that he regarded not the birds i EiT I7TI Etc* «r' 3; flu? T * ora?* if. xii. ver. 239. Ye Vagrants of the Sky! your wings extend, Or where the Suns arise, or where dcitoid; 7t> fig/it or left unheeded take your way— POPE. For this reason, the signs which were presented... | |
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Ye vagrants of the sky ! your wings extend, Or where the suns arise, or where descend ; 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... 
