| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 páginas
...brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain M In the small compass of agrave ; In endless night thi-y sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Tully inquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 páginas
...ambition's now con t ai u'd In the small compass of a gritve ; Rcìgii'd kings as great as li--, nini bravo, In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Tally inquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 568 páginas
...tented field in arms, With glorious ardour prodisral of life, To guard a darling son and faithful wife. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now rontain'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 páginas
...Multi : sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quid vate sacro." — HOB. " Before great Agamemnon reign'd, * Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave. Whose huge ambition 's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave ; In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown,... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...everything which] thought could really hurt any one now living. 3 " Before great Agamemnon relgn'd. Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Who.se huge ambition's now comainM In the small compass of a grave ; In endless night they sh'eji. unwept, unknown ; No bard had... | |
| James Boswell - 1852 - 412 páginas
...appended to an illustrious character. Before I conclude, I think it proper to say, that I have suppressed* In endless night they sleep unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own."—FRANCIS'S HORACE. * Having found on a revision ef the first edition of this work, that, notwithstanding... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 páginas
...Johnson. But in recording conversations he is unnvalled; 1 " Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'•l kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's...unwept, unknown; No bard had they to make all time their own."—FBANCTS. that he was eminently accurate in substance, we have the evidence of all his contemporaries;... | |
| William Peter - 1856 - 590 páginas
...tented field in arms, With glorious ardour prodigal of life, To guard a darling son and faithful wife. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own.* In earth if it forgotten lies, What is the valour of the brave ? What difference, when the coward dies,... | |
| Greek - 1859 - 568 páginas
...sed omnes illacrimabiles TIrguentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Lat. HORACE. " Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great...he, and brave, "Whose huge ambition's now contain'd A beautiful illustration of the value of Poetry, in consecrating and embalming the deeds of virtue... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...thing which I thought could really hurt any one now living. s " Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Relgn'd kings as great as he, and brave. Whose huge ambition's...unknown ; No bard had they to make all time their own." Hor. Oí. iv. 9. francit.— CROIE». * Having found, on a revision of the first edition of this n'ork.... | |
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