 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pàgines
...we reck the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us, While it was ours. 8. Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. 9. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out ; For our... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...comets seen : [princes. Tlie heavens themselves blaze forth the death of Agaittst the Fears of Death. Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It teems to me most stange, that men should Swing that... | |
 | Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825 - 234 pàgines
...fear, and came from his cabin like a spectre from the tomb. His Lordship repeated, as he shook hj"i by the hand, " Cowards die many times before their...bitterness of death, that I shall in future entertain douhts of my own creed." A glass of rum and water, warm, raised his drooping spirits, and in twenty-four... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pàgines
...vice ; and many a person has suffered more pain in the anticipation than in the experience of dying. " Cowards die many times before their death, The valiant never taste of death but once." " To die willingly and nobly," observes Jeremy Taylor, " is the duty of a good and valiant man... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pàgines
...what to think of that same sight, Nor what to say, nor what to do at all. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 3. Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. SHAKSPEARE. 4. And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But, coward-like, with trembling terror... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pàgines
...what to think of that same sight, Nor what to say, nor what to do at all. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 8. Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. SHAKSPEARE. 4. And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But, coward-like, with trembling terror... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pàgines
...good : And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right. 27. Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. 28. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.... | |
 | William Charles McKinnon - 1852 - 300 pàgines
...when my duty calls me," answered the officer, " you have quoted 'Byron, I will quote Shakspeare — ' Cowards die many times before their death, The valiant never taste of death but once !' But what causes you to make such a strange inquiry?" " Because," said the man, with fearful... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pàgines
...slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. MILTOX. XXVIII.— DETACHED SELECTIONS FROM SHAKE. SPEARE. COWARDS die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ;... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...that the skill of conversation lies ; That shows or makes you both polite and wise. Young. COWARDICE. Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Shakspeare. CURIOSITY. The over curious, are not over wise. Massinger. How many a noble art,... | |
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Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. 
