 | Joanna Baillie - 1798 - 434 pages
...virtue hast thou in thy valour, As when a child thou hadst in childish play. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational,...dares the danger nature shrinks from. As for your youth, whom blood and blows delight, Away with them ! there is not in the crew Qne valiant spirit.... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1800 - 430 pages
...virtue hast thou in thy valour, As when a child thou hadst in childish play. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational,...dares the danger nature shrinks from. As for your youth, whom blood and blows delight^ Away with them ! there is not in the crew One valiant spirit —... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...power ; and therefore who dares greatly, Does greatly. Browne's Barbarossa. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational...dares the danger nature shrinks from. As for your youth, whom blood and blows delight, Away with them ! there is not in their crew One valiant spirit.... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...sin. No. 221.1 APHORISMS. [THURSDAY. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were brutish and irrational ; But he, whose noble soul its fear...And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. He basely injures friendship's sacred name, Who reckons not himself and friend the same. True magnanimity... | |
 | Gift books - 1829 - 342 pages
...a distinguished writer observed, " The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were brutish and irrational ; But he, whose noble soul its fear...And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from." About five o'clock the officers assembled in the captain's cabin to take some refreshment. The parching... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...taken to his heels. What a brave soldier is most afraid of ia fear : — ' The brave man ia not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational...And bravely dares the danger Nature shrinks from.' " Here is a nice slice of bear ; — " The tramping of timid deer, attracted by the waning light of... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1832 - 584 pages
...when a child thou, hade t in childish play. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For 1 ! i:it were stupid and irrational ; But he, whose noble soul...dares the danger nature shrinks from. As for your youth, whom blood and blows delight, Away with them ! there is not in the crew One valiant spirit.... | |
 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...a distinguished writer observed, " The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were brutish and irrational ; But he, whose noble soul its fear...And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from." About five o'clock the officers assembled in the captain's cabin to take some refreshment. The parching... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1834 - 496 pages
...FIRST PUNIC WAR; WHEN THE ROMANS BEGAN TO EXTEND TREIK CONQUESTS BEYOND ITALY. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational ; But he, whose noble soul his fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. BAILLIE. 18. Intimidated, part,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...virtue hast thou in thy valour, As when a child thou hadst in childish play. The brave man is not he youth, whom blood and blows delight, Away with them ! there is not in the crew One valiant spirit.... | |
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The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. 
