 | Richard Bulkeley (novelist.) - 1877 - 308 pàgines
...on its walls. When I was a little boy at school, I remember learning some lines of Shakespeare — ' Cowards die many times before their death, The valiant never taste of death bnt once ; Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear,... | |
 | A. M. Trotter - 1878 - 160 pàgines
...guilt; to kill him is almost parricide ; but by what name shall I designate the crucifying of him ? Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once. II. FIGURES OF WORDS. 1. Simile is a comparison between two objects which, though different in... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pàgines
...prize light. (6) A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. (c) Cowards die many times before their death ; the valiant never taste of death but once. is. (a) Every one can master a grief but he that has it. (6) He that will have a cake out of... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pàgines
...wrathfully ; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the Gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. 4. 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,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pàgines
...o'er. (Garth. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Gray. LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 795 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 ;... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 382 pàgines
...said Csesar ? " And Ashton repeated the glorious words, as if their valour warmed his heart : — " 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 ;... | |
 | rev. George Barlow - 1885 - 686 pàgines
...vessels to bribe the Syrian king to withdraw. Conscious unfaithfulness is the parent of craven fear. 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 seema to me most strange that man should fear, Seeing... | |
 | Edward Webster - 1889 - 348 pàgines
...working missionaries in the cause of civilization." TELESCOPIC PHILANTHROPY. A TALE OF ANTE-BELLUM TIMES. 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 ;... | |
 | 1890 - 592 pàgines
...was no escape from the pestiferous atmosphere. I was about to turn away, but recollected the words, " Cowards die many times before their death — the valiant never taste of death but once," kept myself to my duty, and saw brought into this world a child suffering from the same fever... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pàgines
...fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. Evidently a reminiscence of Shakespeare : Cowards die many times before their death ; The valiant never taste of death but once. In his statistics Young may also have dimly remembered Massinger: Death hath a thousand doors... | |
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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. 
