 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 trang
...such quackery, and answered his superstitious monitors with that well-known verse of Homer : ****** His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. credit previously given to these supposed declarations of the divine will ; and though oracles continued... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1843 - 428 trang
...such quackery, and answered his superstitious monitors with that wellknown verse of Homer : ****** His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. The Athenian philosophers contributed much to shake the credit previously given to these supposed declarations... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 trang
...MEMOIR. ENGLAND AND SPAIN; WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE. ENGLAND AND SPAIN;* Mb VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM. " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." — POPS. Too long have Tyranny and Power combined, To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind ; Long... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1847 - 498 trang
...disqualifying the Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Fingall ; they say that the Catholic draft of 1813 was a bad bill, and therefore the act of William, imposing...sacraments with the House of Hanover ; none in the connexion with the Pope which now ceases, except they please to continue it ; none in the charges made... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1849 - 638 trang
...storm the Grecian ships,—and exclaims, in the spirit almost of modem philosophy, " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." In the distinctions, however, between the manly belief of Harold and the more servile superstition... | |
 | Homer - 1849 - 582 trang
...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 shouldst thou suspect the war's success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though... | |
 | 1851 - 598 trang
...may to-night's dreams be good omens ! " " If we dream at all," said Homer again, — " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." They were all standing together, as he made this careless reply to the captain ; and one of the young... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 396 trang
...and answered his superstitious monitors with that wellknown verse of Homer : • **•** jjjs swor<l the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. The Athenian philosophers contributed much to shake the credit previously given to these supposed declarations... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 332 trang
...right, to left, unheeded take your way \vl.il.j 1 the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." NOTE, p. 202. /I..IIL " You hazard more From foe behind than foe before." THE story here recorded of... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1854 - 480 trang
...for the most part, partisans, and afraid to speak truth ; but do not go back to those periods of yonr common disgrace ; rather go to those periods where...sacraments with the House of Hanover ; none in the connexion with the Pope, which now ceases, except they please to continue it ; none in the charges... | |
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
