None but the brave deserves the fair
None but the brave deserves the fair ('Solum audax venustam meret') est versus carminis Ioannis Dryden, anno 1697 scripti, cui titulus est Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick: an Ode wrote in Honour of St. Cecilia, ubi narratur historia comissationis Alexandri Persepoli celebratae: eodem tempore evocari censetur unio Gulielmi et Mariae qui eo tempore Britanniam imperabant. Huic carmini sub eodem titulo musicam anno 1736 composuit Georgius Fridericus Handel. Sub nomine None but the brave recentius gallicauda (cocktail) inventa est. Bibliographia John Dawson Carl Buck, "The Ascetic's Banquet: The Morality of Alexander's Feast" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language vol. 17 (1975) pp. 573-589 JSTOR Bessie Proffitt, "Political Satire in Dryden's Alexander's Feast" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 11 (1970): 1307-1316 apud JSTOR. Ruth Smith, "The Argument and Contexts of Dryden's Alexander's Feast" in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 vol. 18 (1978) pp. 465-490 JSTOR Nexus externi "And do the brave deserve the fair?" apud James Joyce Online Notes