valour's

Cheles has discerned a valuable link between the phrase "virtutibus itur ad astra," represented at Urbino, and the opened manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, displayed on the lectern in the Gubbio studiolo. 156 The page shown at Gubbio contains the following passage: "Each has his day appointed; short and irretrievable is the span of life to all: but to lengthen fame by deeds — that is valour's task."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

He chooses to do the latter, explicitly rejecting the counsel of love: 'O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me effeminate,/And in my temper softened valour's steel'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

I blame no one; what valour's utmost could do is done; we have fought with our whole kingdom's strength.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

No sign of trembling in his face to break his valour's charm:

The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

Pues si es en mí tan notorio Well if valour's so marked in me el valor, mira, Pascual, then note this well Pascual, que el valor es proverbial that valour is proverbial en la raza de Tenorio. in Tenorio's family.

Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

In front rose, literally, mounds of the slain, whether of foe or friend; for round the two brothers to the last had gathered the brunt of war, and they towered now, almost solitary in valour's sublime despair, amidst the wrecks of battle and against the irresistible march of fate.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

In front rose, literally, mounds of the slain, whether of foe or friend; for round the two brothers to the last had gathered the brunt of war, and they towered now, almost solitary in valour's sublime despair, amidst the wrecks of battle and against the irresistible march of fate.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And men would say of valour's rise, or ancient power's decline,

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

V. i.110 (429,6) [dally with my excrement] The authour has before called the beard _valour's excrement_ in the Merchant of Venice.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

I know thy valour's worth, -- well hast thou justified

Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1645