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" None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. Timotheus, plac'd on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. "
Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ... - Page 361
by John Dryden - 1713 - 550 pages
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A poetry-book of elder poets, selected and arranged by A. B. Edwards

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...Happy, happy, happy pair 1 None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. Timotheus, plac'd on high Amid the tuneful quire,...flying fingers touch'd" the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. . . . Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. ii. Timotheus, placed rink of it first,God help the husband then !" The stranger stoopt to the well of St notcs.ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats...
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Chaucer to Burns

William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pages
...pair ! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful realms above...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of ...

1883 - 224 pages
...Royal Oak, and there entertained them with a " royal feast." Nor was this all. The vicar himself — Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre ; The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. As might have been expected, this was deemed rank popery*...
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The Vicars of Rochdale, Issue 1

Francis Robert Raines - 1883 - 230 pages
...Royal Oak, and there entertained them with a "royal feast." Nor was this all. The vicar himself— Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre ; The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. As might have been expected, this was deemed rank popery*...
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The boy's book of poetry, selections from Engl. and Amer. authors

Boy - 1884 - 156 pages
...Happy, happy, happy pair ; None but the brave, None but the brave, Npne but the brave deserves the fair. Timotheus, plac'd on high - Amid the tuneful quire,...flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove ; Who left his blissful seats above,...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 6

1889 - 366 pages
...None but the fat, None but the fat, None but the fat deserve the bouncing fair. n. The bard of Ferney, plac'd on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the wooden lyre : The notes, tho' lame, ascend as high As civic joys require. The song began from G —...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound ; A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears, 25 'd upon the flood. Its outlet dash'd into a deep cascade, ^ : Sparkling with foam, until, again subsiding, ascend the sky, The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres....
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. i n. Timotheus, 3 plac'd on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heav'nly joys inspire. ' The song began from Jove,4 Who left his blissful seats...
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