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" What boastful son of war, without that stay, Can last a hero through a single day ? Courage may prompt; but, ebbing out his strength, Mere unsupported man must yield at length; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd, The drooping body will desert... "
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of ... - Page 344
by John Gabriel Stedman - 1813
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 5

Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1760 - 314 pages
...hero thro' a fingle day ? Courage may prompt ; but, ebbing out his ftrength, Mere unfupported man muft yield at length ; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd, The drooping body will defert the mind : i66 But built a-new with ftrength-conferring fare, With limbs and foul untam'd, he...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey ...

1792 - 918 pages
...hero through a fingle day ? Courage may prompt; but, ebbing out his ftrength Mere unfupported man mull yield at length ; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd, The drooping body will defert the mind : But built anew with (trength-conferring fare, With limbs and foul untain'd, he tires...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...hero through a fmgle day > Courage may prompt; but, ebbing out his ftrength Mere unsupported man mult yield at length ; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd, The drooping body will defert the miii^ : But built anew with ftrcngth-conferring fare. With limbs and foul untam'd, he tires...
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The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A New Edition, with ...

Homer - 1796 - 372 pages
...hero thro' a fingle day? Courage may prompt; but, ebbing out his ftrength, Mere unfupported man muft yield at length ; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd, The drooping body will defert the mind: 166 When fpake the chief for wily fchemes renown'd : Not thus, divine Achillet ! though...
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Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted ..., Volume 2

John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1806 - 518 pages
...the regiment and in the army) after CHAP, after parching above four years in a burning sun, toiling ourselves almost to death, and subsisting upon stinking...fare, With limbs and soul untam'd, he tires a war. At At length, on the 8th, a barge arrived, not only with a CHAP. supply of salt beef and rusk, but a bullock...
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The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...last a ihera through a single' day niit qo Courage may prompt; tat, «hWn»ouf hi* strength, S*«e unsupported man must yield at length ;' Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils deMm'd, IB The drooping hody will desert the mind: ' -J'; •> But huilt a-new with strength-conferring...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...wine and food : What boastful son of war, without that stay, Can last a hero through a single day ? Courage may prompt ; but, ebbing out his strength,...declin'd, The drooping body will desert the mind : But bu'tlt anew with strength-conferring fare, With limbs and soul untani'd, he tires a war. Dismiss the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...food : What boastful son of war, without that stay, Can last a hero through a single day ? Coarage may prompt ; but, ebbing out his strength, Mere unsupported...toils declin'd, The drooping body will desert the mind : Bnt built anew with strength-conferring fare, With limbs and soul mita m I he tires a war. Dismiss...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 2

Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...son of war, without that stay, Can last a hero through a single day ? Courage may prompt; but, ebhing out his strength, Mere unsupported man must yield...drooping body will desert the mind : But built anew with strength-conferring fare, With limbs and soul untam'd, he tires a war. Dismiss the people then, and...
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Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece, Volume 2

John Potter - Greece - 1818 - 616 pages
...generous wine and food : \Vbat boastful son of war without that stay, Can last a hero thro' a single day ? Courage may prompt ; but, ebbing out his strength...drooping body will desert the mind : But built anew with strength-conferring fare With limbs and soul untam'd, he tires a war. We are told so by Livy, that...
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