 | Richard Glover - 1737 - 362 pages
...vain His blackeft frowns and terrours he affumes To fhake the firmnefe of the mind, which knows, 135 That wanting virtue life is pain and woe, That wanting...demand- my life ; My heart exulting anfwers to thy call, 140 And fmiles on glorious fate. To live with fame The Gods allow to many ; but to die With equal luftre,... | |
 | Richard Glover - 1763 - 308 pages
...aflumes To make the firmnefs of the mind, which knows, 135 That wanting virtue life is pain and'woe, That wanting liberty ev'n virtue mourns, And looks...demand my life ; My heart exulting anfwers to thy cull, ;',. " .Iki.jQ And fmiles on glorious fate. To live with fame 'V" The Gods allow to many; but... | |
 | Richard Glover - 1770 - 268 pages
...affumes To fhake the firmnefs of a.mind, which knows, That, wanting virtue, life is pain and woe, 125 That, wanting liberty, ev'n virtue mourns, And looks...call, And fmiles on glorious fate. To live with fame 130 The gods allow to many ; but to die With equal luftre is a bleffing, Jove Among the choiceft of... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...intercept our passage. But in vain " His blackest frowns and terrors he assumes •' To shake the firmness of the mind, which knows * That, wanting virtue, life...liberty, ev'n virtue mourns, " And looks around for happiness in vain. " Then speak, O Sparta, and demand my life ; " My heart exulting, answers to thy... | |
 | Richard Glover, Thomas Park - 1806 - 336 pages
...Could intercept our passage. But a frown Of unavailing terror he assumes To shake the firmness of a mind which knows That, wanting virtue, life is pain...liberty, ev'n virtue mourns, And looks around for happiness in vain. Then speak, O Sparta! and demand my life : My heart, exulting, answers to .thy call,... | |
 | 1807 - 458 pages
...[Continued from page 22.] " But in vain His blackest frowns and terrors he assumes. To shake the firmness of the mind, which knows That, wanting virtue, life is pain and woe ; That, wanting liberty, e'en virtuq mourns, And looks around for happiness in vain." Glover. AFTER this open attack upon the... | |
 | Richard Glover, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...Could intercept our passage. But a frown Of unavailing terror he assumes To shake the firmness of a mind which knows That, wanting virtue, life is pain and woe, That, wanting liherty, ev'n virtue mount*. And looks around for happiness in vain. Then speak, O Sparta! and demand... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...Could intercept our passage. But a frown Of unavailing terrour he assumes To shake the firmness of a mind, which knows, That, wanting virtue, life is pain...liberty, ev'n virtue mourns, And looks around for happiness in vain. Then speak, О Sparta, and demand my life. My heart, exulting, answers to thy call,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...intercept our passage. But in vain His blackest frowns and terrors he assumes To shake the firmness of the mind, which knows That, wanting virtue, life is pain and woe ; That, wanting liberty, e'en virtue mourns, And looks around for happiness in rain. Then speak, О Sparta, and demand my life... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Could intercept our passage. But a frown Of unavailing terror he assumes, To shake the firmness of a mind, which knows That, wanting virtue, life is pain...liberty, ev'n virtue mourns, And looks around for happiness in vain. Then speak, O Sparta, and demand my life ! My heart, exulting, answers to thy call,... | |
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Sparta ! and demand my life ; My heart, exulting, answers to thy call, And smiles on glorious fate. To live with fame The gods... 
